Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> andrel escribió:
>> With a conical answer of: 'Why the "?"?'?
> 
> Nitpick: afaik, quotes are supposed to be used the other way around. 
> First double quotes.
Not in Matlab, and that is what I write most. I could have gone for 
double quotes in stead of double quotes (English might be a bit 
ambiguous here) and written '''''?''''?''?'*. Yet, I think I liked the 
regular '?' better.

> 
> With a coMical answer of: "Why the '?'?"?
Intended was canonical but it could have been a typo for that as well.
> 
> Or use <q> HTML tag (ass-u-ming the browser supports it), which 
> (standard says) will put the correct quotes for the current language, 
> even handling nesting.
Using <q> would have spoiled the effect of having a string (no pun 
intended) of punctuation marks.


* This is getting to look like some of our old matlab code. In matlab 
you have callback strings that are interpreted as commands, so they can 
contain functions with strings as parameters, some of which are commands 
in itself... I think we had pathological cases of 16 quotes in a row. I 
am glad I changed my style a bit.

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