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: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 20:06:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83o9l6bhfs.fsf@gnu.org> <1fedc60d-35a7-4ff0-adbb-b6b8306d192f@default> <83wozu9f6r.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517792704 26123 195.159.176.226 (5 Feb 2018 01:05:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 01:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 05 02:04:59 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 1eiVDJ-00067G-0c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 02:04:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiVFK-0005Pg-8Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 20:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiVF7-0005On-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 20:06:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiVF6-0008S5-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 20:06:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiVF3-0008Nf-9c; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 20:06:41 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eiVF2-0002nP-St; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 20:06:40 -0500 In-reply-to: <83wozu9f6r.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 03 Feb 2018 19:05:32 +0200) 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:222531 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. ]]] > We want to find a way of identifying such situation and telling the > Lisp programmer about that in clear and easily understandable ways. > One way, perhaps too radical one, is to reject such "confusable" > characters outright. I think that makes sense for Lisp symbols. Lisp has had strings for 40 years now, so it isn't customary to use symbols to represent arbitrary text. We could have a mode where intern converts all these character codes to a single canonical set, but the default could be to give an error for all but the preferred one. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.