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Subject: Re: Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this
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> From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 12:43:21 +0700
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> The more important issue is that a double hyphen is used where a dash
> should be.

And the answer is that we'd prefer to stay with ASCII characters as
much as possible, certainly in doc strings, given the controversy
associated with the opposite tendency.  'Nough said.