From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise an error when detecting old-style backquotes. Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:52:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46860d72-9c7e-2c80-5fe3-e17f5ccd6e2d@cs.ucla.edu> <20171003141708.24646-1-phst@google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507056745 3266 195.159.176.226 (3 Oct 2017 18:52:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 18:52:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 03 20:52:22 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 1dzSIn-0000OM-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:52:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzSIu-0006m6-V6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60401) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzSIo-0006m0-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzSIk-00084C-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41913 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzSIk-0007z4-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dzSIW-0007A0-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:52:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:eU7YDebwt7b3ol6/jiFYNre/7z8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:219053 Archived-At: > Removing the special treatment would change the behavior. I'd rather have a > time span where developers would get hard errors instead of subtle behavior > changes. I don't think it'll make any real difference: in both cases the old code won't work anymore: I'm hard pressed to think of a scenario where the "subtle" behavior change is subtle enough not to be detected fairly quickly. Stefan