[samatman]

Nit^3: this point would have been effectively conveyed as '"Google's internal style guide"'. By putting only "internal" into quotes, you call into question whether its public existence invalidates the internal nature of it.

Whereas the respondent said this:

> Google has a “style guide” for internal c++ code

This is a style guide for definitely-internal c++ code, with the internality of the style guide itself unspecified. I'm not sure what the effect of the scare quotes around "style guide" is meant to be, just that it doesn't move the internal part next to the style guide part.

Putting the whole thing in quotes, rather than just "internal", questions whether the guide you found is the guide referred to, rather than the internal nature of the style guide itself, which the quoted sentence takes no position on.

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