From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kan-Ru Chen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: old-style backquotes now generates void macro Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:57:59 +0800 Message-ID: <87mxoawchk.fsf@anar.kanru.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292212712 3017 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2010 03:58:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:58:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 13 04:58:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PRzYS-0005Fa-95 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:58:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47486 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRzYR-0003Hz-OI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:58:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48699 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRzYN-0003FB-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PRzYM-0002Mo-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57334) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PRzYM-0002MT-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PRzYJ-0005Ed-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:58:19 +0100 Original-Received: from 61-30-10-70.static.tfn.net.tw ([61.30.10.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:58:19 +0100 Original-Received: from kanru by 61-30-10-70.static.tfn.net.tw with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:58:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-30-10-70.static.tfn.net.tw User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RQ7zq4x7Vz9+wWi0irpB7F/cvCk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133638 Archived-At: Hi, Using recently compiled emacs development branch, GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2010-12-12 Byte compiling following file will produce an error: ,----[ test.el ] | (defmacro test-macro (rec) | (` ((, rec)))) | | (defun test nil | (test-macro x)) `---- ,----[ *Compile-Log* ] | Compiling file /home/kanru/test.el at Mon Dec 13 11:45:18 2010 | test.el:1:1:Warning: !! The file uses old-style backquotes !! | This functionality has been obsolete for more than 10 years already | and will be removed soon. See (elisp)Backquote in the manual. | test.el:4:8:Error: Symbol's function definition is void: `---- Affected package like APEL and BBDB cannot be compiled now. Is this intended to push the phase out of old-style backquotes? - Kanru