>>>>> "Per" == Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes: Per> The old convention was to Per> quote variables `thus' but this is ugly in modern fonts and is Per> not considered correct use of the accent grave charecter. Per> At some point we'll fix all the error messages, but let's at Per> least not make things worse. There's also: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg01189.html Tom