Modernize legacy backquotes in comments.

Was: ``blah''
Now: `blah`

5 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/doc/DocFactory.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/doc/DocFactory.scala
index d63881170e..f203a5eeb7 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/doc/DocFactory.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/doc/DocFactory.scala
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import scala.reflect.internal.util.BatchSourceFile
   * documentation, which is as follows.
   *
   * * A simplified compiler instance (with only the front-end phases enabled)
-  * * is created, and additional ''sourceless'' comments are registered.
+  * * is created, and additional `sourceless` comments are registered.
   * * Documentable files are compiled, thereby filling the compiler's symbol table.
   * * A documentation model is extracted from the post-compilation symbol table.
   * * A generator is used to transform the model into the correct final format (HTML).
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Implicits.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Implicits.scala
index 788825a6b6..c0391448d1 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Implicits.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Implicits.scala
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ trait Implicits {
           case ThisType(thisSym) =>
             gen.mkAttributedThis(thisSym)
           case _ =>
-            // if ``pre'' is not a PDT, e.g. if someone wrote
+            // if `pre` is not a PDT, e.g. if someone wrote
             //   implicitly[scala.reflect.macros.Context#TypeTag[Int]]
             // then we need to fail, because we don't know the prefix to use during type reification
             // upd. we also need to fail silently, because this is a very common situation
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Typers.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Typers.scala
index ef3414f446..d8d3c37ba6 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Typers.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Typers.scala
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ trait Typers extends Adaptations with Tags {
     def inferView(tree: Tree, from: Type, to: Type, reportAmbiguous: Boolean): Tree =
       inferView(tree, from, to, reportAmbiguous, true)
 
-    /** Infer an implicit conversion (``view'') between two types.
+    /** Infer an implicit conversion (`view`) between two types.
      *  @param tree             The tree which needs to be converted.
      *  @param from             The source type of the conversion
      *  @param to               The target type of the conversion
@@ -1964,14 +1964,14 @@ trait Typers extends Adaptations with Tags {
     }
 
     /** Remove definition annotations from modifiers (they have been saved
-     *  into the symbol's ``annotations'' in the type completer / namer)
+     *  into the symbol's `annotations` in the type completer / namer)
      *
      *  However reification does need annotation definitions to proceed.
      *  Unfortunately, AnnotationInfo doesn't provide enough info to reify it in general case.
      *  The biggest problem is with the "atp: Type" field, which cannot be reified in some situations
      *  that involve locally defined annotations. See more about that in Reifiers.scala.
      *
-     *  That's why the original tree gets saved into ``original'' field of AnnotationInfo (happens elsewhere).
+     *  That's why the original tree gets saved into `original` field of AnnotationInfo (happens elsewhere).
      *  The field doesn't get pickled/unpickled and exists only during a single compilation run.
      *  This simultaneously allows us to reify annotations and to preserve backward compatibility.
      */
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/util/DocStrings.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/util/DocStrings.scala
index dde53dc640..ba44126df2 100755
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/util/DocStrings.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/util/DocStrings.scala
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ object DocStrings {
     else idx :: findAll(str, idx)(p)
   }
 
-  /** Produces a string index, which is a list of ``sections'', i.e
+  /** Produces a string index, which is a list of `sections`, i.e
    *  pairs of start/end positions of all tagged sections in the string.
    *  Every section starts with an at sign and extends to the next at sign,
    *  or to the end of the comment string, but excluding the final two
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/reflect/package.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/reflect/package.scala
index bf533766d0..968b0d0863 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/reflect/package.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/reflect/package.scala
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ package object reflect {
 
   /** Creates a reporter that prints messages to the console according to the settings.
    *
-   *  ``minSeverity'' determines minimum severity of the messages to be printed.
+   *  `minSeverity` determines minimum severity of the messages to be printed.
    *  0 stands for INFO, 1 stands for WARNING and 2 stands for ERROR.
    */
   // todo. untangle warningsAsErrors from Reporters. I don't feel like moving this flag here!