From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Bruce Mardle <marblypup@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: 54797@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54797: 27.1; "Old-style backquotes detected!" when there are no backquotes.
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 10:39:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h772646s.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <318682461.5015086.1649439801318@mail.yahoo.com> (Bruce Mardle's message of "Fri, 8 Apr 2022 17:43:21 +0000 (UTC)")
Bruce Mardle <marblypup@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> Short version:
> Try to evaluate
> '(, foo)
> and you'll get (error "Old-style backquotes detected!"), which is
> confusing considering that the expression doesn't contain a backquote!
I can reproduce this in Emacs 27.1, but not in Emacs 28.1 (it just
evaluates to ((\, foo))), so I guess this has been fixed now.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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[not found] <318682461.5015086.1649439801318.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2022-04-08 17:43 ` bug#54797: 27.1; "Old-style backquotes detected!" when there are no backquotes Bruce Mardle via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-09 8:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-04-09 17:59 ` Drew Adams
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2022-04-17 18:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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