From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new variable to force new-style backquote interpretation. Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:19:01 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <20171229205929.23584-1-phst@google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514614678 26383 195.159.176.226 (30 Dec 2017 06:17:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 06:17:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 Cc: Philipp Stephani To: Philipp Stephani , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 07:17:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVASo-00064X-Kx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 07:17:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42590 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVAUn-0004wt-3q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:19:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVAU7-0004wN-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:19:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVAU4-0007LD-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:51194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVAU4-0007J2-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC56161660; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:19:02 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id vRjK8jqQYHgF; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:19:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2F916165B; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:19:01 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Uj4eXXdjk_Ww; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:19:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.30.119]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AC9FB161624; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:19:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20171229205929.23584-1-phst@google.com> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221464 Archived-At: Why not simply take the new interpretation for backquotes? That would be = simpler=20 than adding a backward-compatibility variable that I suspect nobody will = ever need.