<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:30 PM Ryan Joseph <<a href="mailto:genericptr@gmail.com">genericptr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I must have missed something, why would a single apostrophe be anything besides just another character? I thought another use of `` strings would be that you don’t need to escape apostrophes using ‘'.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I didn't really think it should be. Just wanted to make sure we're aiming for the exact "mirror image" of normal strings.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:35 PM Michael Van Canneyt <<a href="mailto:michael@freepascal.org">michael@freepascal.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">for reasons of symmetry, if<br>'`' (quote backtick quote) <br>is legal, then<br>`'` (backtick quote backtick)<br>should also be. I see no point in allowing a normal quote to end a ` string,<br>as the opposite also does not happen. A backtick also does not end a<br>single-quoted string.<br><br>The backticked string is in all respects the same as a regular string,<br>except that the single quote delimiter is replaced by a backtick delimiter.<br><br>That means that `this is `` a bakcticked string with a backtick in it`<br>should also work.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ok, that's how it already works with the revised version. Just thought I would double-check. </div></div></div></div>