On 08/10/2013 10:44 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
I'm wondering what the purpose of the back-quoting of the name is, since
benchmark seems a valid name. The language reference does mention
back-quoting names to make them syntactic names, but I found no
explanation of the "why".

Can someone give a concise reason?

It has no effect, so it is just a matter of style. You'd have to ask the maintainer why he likes that style, or what tool he used to produce the source code.

Duncan Murdoch

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