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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, 30217@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 13:37:57 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29f2629e-35dd-4c6d-859e-d5851e3f9125@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_4Jr4RS6jCkg9DHJb7L-fuJ4CjEOxqc0VXM0WJMneLQw@mail.gmail.com>

> > Sorry, but it's not clear to me.  Is this being abandoned
> > completely (I hope so), or is it just being postponed to
> > Emacs 27?
> 
> It's currently only postponed to Emacs 27, I suggest you bring it up
> in emacs-devel if you think we should get rid of it. Since we simply
> disagree about this, I don't think further dialogue here will help
> anything.

I think you should bring it up, and I think you should have
from the beginning.  This is not just about fixing a bug.

You're the one who is, in effect, proposing a change to Lisp.

This is not normal Lisp behavior.  This is a far cry from
quote and backquote, comma and period, all of which are quite
traditional for Lisp.

These are ordinary symbol-constituent characters, and should
not be handled in the way you've implemented.  (I wanted to
say "suggested", but you didn't suggest it to emacs-devel;
you just implemented it - in a bug thread, no less.)





  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-02 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-22 22:17 bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91 Alan Mackenzie
2018-01-22 22:42 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23  0:42   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23  0:56     ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23  1:40       ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23  6:07         ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23  6:21           ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23 12:54           ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23 15:53             ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23 23:00               ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23 23:19                 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-24  0:02                   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-28 15:52                     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-02 18:52                       ` Drew Adams
2018-02-02 19:08                         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-02 21:37                           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-02-02 22:14                             ` Ista Zahn
2018-02-02 22:35                               ` Noam Postavsky

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