From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: wilde@sha-bang.de, schwab@suse.de, stefan@xsteve.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange change in backquote expansion
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:10:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7innimb4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1INggz-0000f5-6n@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 21 Aug 2007 23\:15\:37 -0400")
> - add a new variable no-old-style-backquotes, with 2 values:
> t = treat all backquotes and commas as new style
> nil = behave like now (i.e. try to tell which is which)
> That would actually break the old code. I don't want to do
> it so abruptly.
Old code can still be used as is uncompiled or by setting the
no-old-style-backquotes variable.
> For now I just want to warn about them the old-style code,
> and handle it as it was intended.
OK, I've committed a change on the 22 branch that makes the byte-compiler
display a big fat warning if the file uses old-style backquotes.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-18 21:34 Strange change in backquote expansion Sascha Wilde
2007-08-19 15:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-19 16:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-08-20 15:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-20 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-21 14:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-21 14:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-21 18:11 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-22 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-21 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-22 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-22 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-08-19 16:19 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-08-20 15:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-20 4:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-21 19:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-21 19:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-08-22 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-22 16:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-08-22 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-22 20:33 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-08-22 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-26 6:33 ` Michael Olson
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