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Subject: Re: Style question -- plural of class name?
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On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> "A list of FooEntry's"

Only if you put another apostrophe in:

"A list of 'FooEntry's"

But the delimited style is almost never of use. I'd go for this only
if there were some sort of automated markup being applied - if the
word FooEntry were turned into a hyperlink or something.

ChrisA