Re: Strange change in backquote expansion

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > Since 19.29 was 12 years ago, I think it is time to delete the
>     > documentation of that compatibility feature.  Does anyone object?
>
>     I believe the old syntax is still used in some of the bundled
>     packages, not to mention the unbundled ones.
>
> Can you arrange to issue a warning when reading code that uses the old
> syntax?  There could be a flag to control the warning, and for the moment
> we could make only the byte compiler turn on the flag.  That would make
> it convenient if the warnings come thru the compiler warning mechanism.
>
> In Emacs 24 we could make the old syntax an error.

Where do we put plans scheduled for Emacs 24?  TODO in the multi-tty
branch?

We probably should also put "Make sure that the Y2038 bug does not
bite us" there.

-- 
David Kastrup