Re: abbrev table in cperl-mode

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> The attached patch does this. BTW, defining system abbrevs doesn't
>> change abbrev-changed so I leave the (let ...) out.

> The docs for my version say

>     define-abbrev-table: a built-in function.

>     Define TABLENAME (a symbol) as an abbrev table name.
>     Define abbrevs in it according to DEFINITIONS, which is a list of
>     elements
>     of the form (ABBREVNAME EXPANSION HOOK USECOUNT).

>     (define-abbrev-table TABLENAME DEFINITIONS)

> So, as minimum, it is not backward-compatible.

Actually, AFAIK it is backward compatible in that older versions just
ignore the tail of the list rather than checking that it's nil.
So older versions will just ignore the additional t.


        Stefan