From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:41:01 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5583C78D.9050108@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <55826FFA.2040907@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434699690 17568 80.91.229.3 (19 Jun 2015 07:41:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 07:41:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 19 09:41:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5qvR-0002Gn-57 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:41:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5qvQ-0001oQ-Cg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 03:41:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5qvD-0001oJ-Re for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 03:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5qvB-0007Tx-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 03:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:60336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5qvB-0007T1-0Q; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 03:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE4F16081F; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id iSj048NzJ-QS; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1896F160822; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:41:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id iSTgAP4uIF9s; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DBAA416081F; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:41:01 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187306 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > Several problems: > - it's butt-ugly. > - I can never remember it (why can't we use a standard quoting convention). It is indeed ugly and hard to remember. Its main advantage is backward compatibility. All the other quoting conventions I could think of would have caused new-style docstrings to not work in old-style Emacs.