From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
Cc: 11904@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11904: 24.1.50; error byte compiling (defvar :foo ':foo), regression from 23.4
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:43:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1ukhnllk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87liirw6jk.fsf@maru.md5i.com> (Michael Welsh Duggan's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:16:47 -0400")
> (defvar :foo ':foo)
I'm curious: where did you find such code?
Such code used to be added "implicitly" back in Emacs-19 days because
Emacs-19 did not have keywords. Some packages kept such code a bit
longer in the hope that the resulting code would still work under
Emacs-19, but nowadays this seems very outdated.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-12 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-10 23:16 bug#11904: 24.1.50; error byte compiling (defvar :foo ':foo), regression from 23.4 Michael Welsh Duggan
2012-07-11 7:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-07-12 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-07-12 13:52 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2012-07-18 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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