On 22 June 2015 at 09:44, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
wrote:

On this subject, you can spell it "comment and objections", but in my
> experience what you get is "prejudice and hysteria".  I see no reason
> to change that assessment for what has happened here.  I've been
> through these battles a number of times, and the comment and objection
> stage is always just a waste of time and bandwidth.  Nobody ever
> changes their mind based on so-called "rational argument"; the only
> actual result that ever happens is that implementation is always
> delayed, and often proponents give up entirely for a while.


For what it's worth, reading through this discussion has changed my mind. I
went into this sceptical of the change, but I'm now convinced it's the
right thing. I just updated gnu-apl-mode to use the curly quotes instead of
the old style.

I'm assuming that the existence of the curly quotes will not screw anything
up (as in: the application will still work and not crash in your face) in
older versions of Emacs. Can anyone confirm this?

Regards,
Elias