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From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: old-style backquotes now generates void macro
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:01:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hf8mdev.fsf@engster.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m139pwwvx1.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:11:54 +0000")

Leo writes:
> On 2010-12-17 03:28 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> "obsolete" basically means "unsupported". But in order not to alienate
>> our users who don't always have the ability to fix the code they use,
>> we tend to keep obsolete features working, sometimes far too long.
>
> I think packages most users use are well supported i.e. any trivial bugs
> like these are fixed promptly. The thing though is they don't know when
> the obsolete features are going, so they sometimes keep using them until
> absolutely have to change.

The problem is that it is sometimes not clear to me what exactly has to
change.

Currently, the change to lread.c broke the grammar generation in CEDET.

The culprit is that

(read "( ,(cons $1 $3 ) )")

used to return

(\, (cons $1 $3))

but now returns

((\, (cons $1 $3)))

Does CEDET depend on some obsoleted feature here, meaning this should
rather be fixed in CEDET than emacs?

-David



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-17 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-13  3:57 old-style backquotes now generates void macro Kan-Ru Chen
2010-12-13 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-14  0:03   ` Kan-Ru Chen
2010-12-17  3:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-17 10:11       ` Leo
2010-12-17 15:33         ` Kan-Ru Chen
2010-12-17 19:01         ` David Engster [this message]
2010-12-17 22:00           ` Stefan Monnier

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