Gwynne (email@hidden) on 2006-07-22 18:56 said:
>In the fonts used by most of the old VT terminals, backtick looked
>enough like a left apostrophe and apostrophe enough like a right
>apostrophe for them to be used in that context. Back in those days,
>high-ASCII was either unheard of or utterly taboo, so there were no
>actual ‘ and ’ characters to work from. UNIX is stuffed to the brim
>with ancient things like this, and you have to admire to some extent
>the ingenuity they had. You also have to be horrified at the modern
>world's inability to change things like that out of some sense of
>nostalgia.
...or the fear of breaking equally ancient software that relies on such
anachronisms. Though probably not the case with assert()... then again,
I could see some kind of automated testing software rely on its output
format. :)
--
"Every rule has an exception; especially this one."
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