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Re: Strange change in backquote expansion
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Strange change in backquote expansion |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:57:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
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
- Strange change in backquote expansion, Sascha Wilde, 2007/08/18
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/19
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Andreas Schwab, 2007/08/19
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/20
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Stefan Monnier, 2007/08/20
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/21
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Glenn Morris, 2007/08/21
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/21
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Stefan Monnier, 2007/08/21
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/21
- Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Stefan Monnier, 2007/08/22
Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Johan Bockgård, 2007/08/19
Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Stefan Monnier, 2007/08/20
Re: Strange change in backquote expansion, Stefan Monnier, 2007/08/21