[Mystery-Machine]

The author also forgot to mention that the new error output doesn't mix ` and ' anymore.

Ruby 3.3

> 'asd' + 1 (sitar-report):1:in `+': no implicit conversion ...

Ruby 3.4

> 'asd' + 1 (sitar-report):1:in 'String#+': no implicit conversion...

[mostlysimilar]

This has bothered me for decades, why was this ever the case to begin with?

[BalinKing]

I'd presume it's the same motivation behind quotes in TeX (`foo' and ``bar'')—maybe typewriters didn't use to have true curly quotes, or something?

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick#As_surrogate_of_apost... seems relevant

[thwarted]

Is the stack trace in the section "Clearer exception backtraces" actually from 3.4? It has mixed backticks and single quotes.

[Sinjo]

Fixed! I grabbed that example from the bug tracker issue where the change was discussed and that wasn’t based on a version where the backtick change had been made.