Re: quotation characters in the Octave sources

[John W. Eaton]

On 6/26/19 1:19 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> I assume you mean quotation marks used in strings that are presented to
> the user? Or do you mean something else?

I'm thinking of any text file in the sources, but yes, especially in any 
messages that are displayed.

> I agree with consistency, and I tend to prefer the look of double
> quotes, for example in this error message:
>
>      >> exist ("x", "foo")
>      error: exist: unrecognized type argument "foo"
>
> rather than single quotes, for example in this error message:
>
>      >> sum (10, "foo")
>      error: sum: unrecognized type argument 'foo'
>
> But either way, yes to consistency.

Yes.

jwe