From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise an error when detecting old-style backquotes.
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:12:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dzkPG-00013s-3W@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbmlow2ja.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:43:37 -0400)
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> > * src/lread.c (Fload): Don’t use record_unwind_protect to warn about
> > old-style backquotes any more. They now generate a hard error.
> Not sure what's the benefit of raising a hard error, over just removing
> the obsolete feature altogether.
The hard error could have a specific error message
to inform users of where to look to find out what to change.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-04 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-03 13:51 Old-style backquotes Philipp Stephani
2017-10-03 14:12 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-03 14:17 ` [PATCH] Raise an error when detecting old-style backquotes Philipp Stephani
2017-10-03 17:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-03 18:36 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-10-03 18:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-08 16:03 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-10-08 19:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-04 14:12 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-10-04 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-05 7:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-06 4:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-06 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-03 15:02 ` Old-style backquotes Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-08 14:58 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-10-08 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-08 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-08 16:25 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-10-08 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-08 16:59 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-09 20:44 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-09 20:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-12-09 20:58 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-09 21:05 ` Philipp Stephani
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