From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise an error when detecting old-style backquotes. Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:12:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46860d72-9c7e-2c80-5fe3-e17f5ccd6e2d@cs.ucla.edu> <20171003141708.24646-1-phst@google.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507126368 31026 195.159.176.226 (4 Oct 2017 14:12:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 14:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 04 16:12:36 2017 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 1dzkPa-0006pk-Ow for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:12:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzkPh-0007jW-UX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:12:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzkPP-0007dk-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:12:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzkPO-0003yZ-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:12:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzkPG-0003jF-H5; Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dzkPG-00013s-3W; Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:12:14 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:43:37 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:219075 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > * src/lread.c (Fload): Don’t use record_unwind_protect to warn about > > old-style backquotes any more. They now generate a hard error. > Not sure what's the benefit of raising a hard error, over just removing > the obsolete feature altogether. The hard error could have a specific error message to inform users of where to look to find out what to change. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.