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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:59:21 -0700
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Ignacio Burgueño <iburgueno@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any historical reason for that use of the backtick in quotes? I
> always found it kind of odd. Does its use came fro TeX ?
It's an attempt to imitate opening and closing curly-quotes using
ASCII characters. As far as I know there's nothing more to it than
that.
/s/ Adam
