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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
| Date: | Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:41:01 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
Several problems: - it's butt-ugly. - I can never remember it (why can't we use a standard quoting convention).
It is indeed ugly and hard to remember. Its main advantage is backward compatibility. All the other quoting conventions I could think of would have caused new-style docstrings to not work in old-style Emacs.
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