Question: why Maple code sometimes surrounds key words or build-in functions with ` ` ?

I am maple newbie. Sometimes when I look at Maple code to try to understand the algorithm (which is hard, since I do not know Maple well), I see the code puts ` ` around some keywords. And sometimes it does not. For example, sometimes I see something like (these are random samples) from Maple code shown using showstat()

return `if`(assigned(r),r,{})
r := `union`(r,{solve(op(1,expr) = 1,vs)})
v2 := `intersect`(vs,indets(op(1,expr),'name'));

But sometimes, they do not put ` ` around functions name or keywords, like this:

if nops(v2) = 1 then
t1 := remove(a -> has(a,RootOf),t1);
for t in expr do

and so on.

Can some expert please give what is the rule thumb to use? Should user adopt this method also? When to put ` ` and when not to put ` `?   I understand that ` ` prevents one-time evaluation (or rather, holds off immediate evaluation) and ``  `` prevents two times evaluation and so on. But when to use ` ` is what is confusing me.