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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? |
Date: | Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:10:41 -0700 |
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Do we even allow the syntax (let ((foo))...)?
Although that's a reasonable question it doesn't address the main problem, as there are lots of other opportunities for confusion like this one. For example, if I see '(foo ․ bar) in Elisp source code, I'll naturally think it yields a cons of two symbols. It doesn't: it yields a list of three symbols, because that dot is not a FULL STOP (U+002E); it's a ONE DOT LEADER (U+2024).
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