[#4766] Wiki — "Glen Stampoultzis" <trinexus@...>

21 messages 2000/09/04
[#4768] RE: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/09/04

Hi, Glen,

[#4783] Re: Wiki — Masatoshi SEKI <m_seki@...> 2000/09/04

[#4785] Re: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...> 2000/09/05

Howdy,

[#4883] Re-binding a block — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/09/12

[#4930] Perl 6 rumblings -- RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/09/15

[#4936] Ruby Book Eng. translation editor's questions — Jon Babcock <jon@...>

20 messages 2000/09/16

[#5045] Proposal: Add constants to Math — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

15 messages 2000/09/21

[#5077] Crazy idea? infix method calls — hal9000@...

This is a generalization of the "in" operator idea which I

17 messages 2000/09/22

[#5157] Compile Problem with 1.6.1 — Scott Billings <aerogems@...>

When I try to compile Ruby 1.6.1, I get the following error:

15 messages 2000/09/27

[ruby-talk:4953] Re: Ruby Book Eng. translation editor's questions

From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2000-09-17 03:32:30 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4953
"Hal E. Fulton" wrote:

> Nobody cares about this but me,
> but I'll comment anyway... :)
>
> The character ` is commonly referred
> to as a back-tick or back-quote (I've
> seen this with or without the hyphen).
>
> The strictly correct term, I believe,
> is grave accent (even though that is
> not the way they are "used").
>
> To call them single quotes or left-hand
> single quotes is, I think, simply
> mistaken...
>
> Hal Fulton

The grave accent is positioned on top of a vowel.  It looks
just like a back-tick, but has a very different meaning.  It
means "this is pronounced differently".  English has no
particular use for this form, so we tend to be sloppy and
confuse it with the back-tick (which stands in isolation).

Or, at least, that's my reading of the situation.



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