From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: 20852@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20852: 24.3; update-file-autoloads doesn't accept unescaped parenthesis character literal
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:24:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvoakb5r4b.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wvr4lhffsdtj.fsf@phst2.muc.corp.google.com> (Philipp Stephani's message of "Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:22:48 +0200")
> Create an Elisp file such as
> (defvar foo ?()
> and try to run `update-file-autoloads' on it. This will fail with an
> unbalanced parenthesis error. However, this is valid (albeit
> discouraged) Elisp code.
Yes: don't do that. Use (defvar foo ?\() instead.
This same error will appear during interactive editing of that code.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-19 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-19 19:22 bug#20852: 24.3; update-file-autoloads doesn't accept unescaped parenthesis character literal Philipp Stephani
2015-06-19 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-06-21 12:13 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-06-22 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-28 13:12 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-06-30 20:43 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-07-02 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <20170501142718.3510-1-phst@google.com>
2017-05-01 17:59 ` bug#20852: [PATCH] Warn about missing backslashes during load Stefan Monnier
2017-05-01 18:41 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-06 21:14 ` [PATCH] Make `old-style-backquotes' variable internal Philipp
2017-05-07 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 11:49 ` Philipp
2017-05-13 10:35 ` Philipp Stephani
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