On Sun Feb 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-01-29T00:57:19-0400, sebastien peterson boudreau wrote: > > The quotes for `i'th and `i+1'th are very important because the parser > > will reject input that uses two right/neutral quotes/apostrophes. > > You're right! Back in November 2020, I "corrected" this example. > [...] > Obviously the `oq` and `cq` special characters aren't correct, but I > knew very little about pic(1) at the time and didn't understand that it > really does use m4/TeX/troff-style quotation syntax for its embedded > expressions. I find the decision odd, but I'm probably decades late to > weigh in on it.
Seems like you found yourself in a familiar situation: "This under-documented code seems stupid. Was the person who wrote it really that stupid, or am I missing something?" Experience has taught me to approach seemingly non-sensical code with caution. ~ onf
