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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 09:03:31 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> [1] But I agree with Drew that the `...' in `foo-bar' isn't quoting but
> a markup which unambiguously says "foo-bar is a symbol." In
> contrast, ‘foo-bar’ is ambiguous. It could be a quote or a symbol.
> Well, of course there aren't too many quotes in lisp files so this
> problem probably isn't too relevant in practice.
As you noticed, indeed, ‘foo-bar’ can be ambiguous, but `foo-bar' can
*also* be ambiguous. Actually, there are many more uses of quotes and
backtits in Elisp docstrings and comments which are not used for markup,
then there are of ‘ and ’.
To me, one of the motivations for the change (after the visual aspect) is
to have a *more* robust handling because it is *less* ambiguous (within
the context of Elisp).
Stefan
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/16
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Tassilo Horn, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/06/18
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/18
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/19
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/19
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/19
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/19
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