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Re: [PATCH] Raise an error when detecting old-style backquotes.


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise an error when detecting old-style backquotes.
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:52:04 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Removing the special treatment would change the behavior.  I'd rather have a
> time span where developers would get hard errors instead of subtle behavior
> changes.

I don't think it'll make any real difference: in both cases the old code
won't work anymore: I'm hard pressed to think of a scenario where the
"subtle" behavior change is subtle enough not to be detected
fairly quickly.


        Stefan




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