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From: johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: smalltalk `string' standard?
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Date: 15 Jan 90 01:38:43 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!johnson    Jan 13 09:23:00 1990


Smalltalk-80 uses the same character to begin and end strings.
Thus, 'stuff' and not `stuff'.  Page 20 of "Smalltalk-80: The
Language" makes it pretty clear that this is part of the standard.
I am not a big Smalltalk-V user, but Digitalk tries hard to be
compatible with Smalltalk-80 at the language level, so I think
the use of different characters to begin and end strings is just
bad typography in the manuals.