From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:36:05 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <25a9cd5e-1876-058f-0303-f483a6bfb476@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87shaigcvs.fsf@gmail.com> <838tc8acda.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517772882 18388 195.159.176.226 (4 Feb 2018 19:34:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 19:34:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Cc: aaronecay@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 04 20:34:37 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eiQ3L-00032r-Bg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 20:34:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiQ5M-0002Ka-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:36:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiQ5E-0002K5-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:36:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiQ5E-0002Nx-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:36:12 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:43794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiQ5A-0002LG-9d; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:36:08 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4194616161A; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:36:06 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 1QfG1n1QLWPj; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:36:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9127416161E; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:36:05 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Wa0yd5dFcvBA; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:36:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.30.119]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6462016161A; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:36:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <838tc8acda.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222515 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > restricting Lisp symbols that way sounds too harsh OK, I'll omit that patch. We still have a problem with Emacs Lisp code containing confusable charac= ters=20 that can make the code exceedingly hard to review. These characters are=20 currently not caught or checked by anything. We really should do better.