I think that we don't need to worry about compatibility with the other
version of the ruby-mode in Ruby's SVN repo, since just about nobody uses
it (except maybe some Emacs 23 users?).

ruby-mode suffers from a lot of legacy in it (compared to other built-in
modes) and would definitely benefit from a clean up. After all, simpler
code is always easier to improve, extend and debug.


On 31 October 2013 19:55, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > The attached patch simply replaces (set (make-local-variable …)…) with
> > setq-local’ where appropriate in ruby-mode.el.
>
> Is it OK to use such bleeding-edge constructs in ruby-mode.el, or is
> there still some external version with which we should try to preserve
> compatibility?
>
> I meant, the code still tests (functionp 'syntax-ppss), so if we can
> drop backward compatibility, there are probably more cleanups ahead.
>
>
>         Stefan
>