From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eval-after-load as a macro (and eval-next-after-load) Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 17:57:05 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84he9dszse.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <200304042030.h34KUEQL008262@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049563258 21659 80.91.224.249 (5 Apr 2003 17:20:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 17:20:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 05 19:20:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 191rLc-0005cw-00 for ; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 19:20:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 191rOF-0007yh-00 for ; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 19:23:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 191qhd-0005pX-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 11:39:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 191qhI-0005ox-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 11:39:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 191qgm-0005fW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 11:39:15 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 191qgl-0005fS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 11:38:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 191q3w-0000UQ-00 for ; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 17:58:36 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 191q3v-0000UH-00 for ; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 17:58:35 +0200 Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/QSp82X1WUY0pb2mCWIMQEQhqhA= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12918 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12918 "Stefan Monnier" writes: > Of course, such a change would introduce an incompatibility, > but it turns out that I think it's rather minor. We can detect > the case where the argument is of the form (quote ...) and > treat it as it was before. That takes care of 98% of the > case. Maybe the backward compatibility behavior should be documented; otherwise people reading the `wrong' usage might get confused. -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.