[ruby-core:75206] [Ruby trunk Bug#12321] Backticks in log output cause issues

Issue #12321 has been updated by Matthew Kerwin.


It's an old typographical convention, as you say, to indicate opening quotation marks. It is used in TeX, for instance.

I find the argument "it's hard to paste into Slack" not very compelling.

That said, I have no strong opinion either way.

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Bug #12321: Backticks in log output cause issues
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12321#change-58339

* Author: Derek Kniffin
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.2.3p173
* Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN
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I would like to propose changing ruby's log output slightly. The issue I have is with output like this:

~~~
NoMethodError: undefined method `some_method' for nil:NilClass
~~~

In particular, I don't like how some_method has a backtick on the left, and a single quote on the right. I would much prefer to have single quotes on both sides.

Now, this may seem like a very knit-picky thing, but in the modern age where markdown is very widely used, this causes an issue quite often. For instance, every time I copy/paste a log snippet like that into slack, and try wrapping it in backticks, to denote that it's a code snippet, it formats it wrong.

I've tried to find a reason why ruby's output does this, but I couldn't find anything. The best guess I have is that it was a way to emulate opening and closing apostrophes, but it's a poor replacement for that. If someone else can enlighten me about the reasoning, I'd be very curious to know it.



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