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bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91


From: Drew Adams
Subject: bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:19:07 -0800 (PST)

I won't reply to each thing you wrote, as I think
I've already spoken to each of those things and
made myself clear.

> > (setq ’bar 42)
> > (setq foo ’bar)
> 
> Yes, that code no longer works, you would have to write
> 
> (setq \’bar 42)
> (setq foo \’bar)
>
> > such _escaping_ is another bad idea.  It too subtracts
> > from Lisp (while adding nonsense to it).
> 
> Nothing about escaping has changed.

Of course something about escaping has changed.
\’bar is now read differently from ’bar.


[But \﴾bar is not (yet) read differently from ﴾bar.
That char is ORNATE LEFT PARENTHESIS, code point 64830.]





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