2014-02-17 21:19 GMT+01:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

> > Is there a good reason why:
> > (with-syntax-table lisp-mode-syntax-table
> >   (string (char-syntax ?\|)))
> > "\""
>
> IIRC some Lisps use that for symbols.
>
> > |rdf|:|someClass| and smartparen can't behave well in this case,
>
> If it hurts don't do that.  Really, it seems like a particularly bad idea.
>
>
Usually, I try not to hurt myself too much but you know what it is...
Care to explain  why it is such a bad idea?
Sometimes you need case-sensitive symbols
in Lisp, and semantic web (RDF, OWL and so on) is one.


> > Would that switch imply any drawbacks I can't think of?
>
> I'm not sure what lisp-mode-syntax-table should use, but so far
> emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table should use "_" for the syntax of ?|
>
>
And this is what I advocated for.


> OTOH, someone might want to make |...| into a new syntax for symbols, in
> which case your |rdf|:|someClass| might break in the future.
>
> Sure but the same guy could also redefine ( and ) in the reader ...

Fabrice