On Jun 3, 4:18*am, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:13:37 -0600, Lewis Hartswick wrote:
Cats wrote:
The Single quote character is this: '

That isn't a quote . At least wasn't when I wet to school in the USA It
may be elsewhere or it could have change in the last 60 years.
* * ...Lew..

Its meaning is context dependent. I know three uses of it:

1) As 'single quote marks' in an English sentence.
2) As a character literal marker in programming, e.g 'a'.
3) To indicate ownership, it which case it's occurrence is never paired.


In case 3, it's not "it's", it's "its". And now you can add a fourth
case for contractions. :-).

-Evan