Re: curly-quotes

2006-04-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 02:32:03AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Given perl6's use of unicode as a basis, could we get curly quotes, : both single and double, to do the same things that straight quotes do? Depends on what same thing means, I suppose. Looks like you want them directional, which

curly-quotes

2006-04-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Given perl6's use of unicode as a basis, could we get curly quotes, both single and double, to do the same things that straight quotes do? That is: text does the same thing as text, and 'text' does the same thing as 'text'. Other than looks neat, why do this? Because curly-quotes come