re: https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html - UPDATE

Howard Johnson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
OOPs.  Now I see that in fact the leading quote is a back tick (not a 
single tick), while the trailing quote is a single tick.  Strange.

Might be good to spell this uncommon usage out more clearly in 
https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#Quoted-strings

i.e. say:

     A quoted string is a sequence of characters surrounded by quote 
strings, defaulting to ‘`’ (back tick) and ‘'’ (single quote), where the 
nested begin and end quotes within the string are balanced. The value of 
a string token is the text, with one level of quotes stripped off.

rather than just:

     A quoted string is a sequence of characters surrounded by quote 
strings, defaulting to ‘`’ and ‘'’, where the nested begin and end 
quotes within the string are balanced. The value of a string token is 
the text, with one level of quotes stripped off.
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