From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kan-Ru Chen <kanru@kanru.info>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: old-style backquotes now generates void macro
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:55:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwrndwof5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxoawchk.fsf@anar.kanru.info> (Kan-Ru Chen's message of "Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:57:59 +0800")
> ,----[ *Compile-Log* ]
> | Compiling file /home/kanru/test.el at Mon Dec 13 11:45:18 2010
> | test.el:1:1:Warning: !! The file uses old-style backquotes !!
> | This functionality has been obsolete for more than 10 years already
> | and will be removed soon. See (elisp)Backquote in the manual.
> | test.el:4:8:Error: Symbol's function definition is void:
> `----
> Affected package like APEL and BBDB cannot be compiled now. Is this
> intended to push the phase out of old-style backquotes?
There's indeed a newly introduced bug in the old-style backquote code.
It'll get fixed before the Emacs-24 release, but in the mean time you'd
be well-advised to get rid of that dinosaur in "your" source code.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-13 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 3:57 old-style backquotes now generates void macro Kan-Ru Chen
2010-12-13 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-12-14 0:03 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2010-12-17 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-17 10:11 ` Leo
2010-12-17 15:33 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2010-12-17 19:01 ` David Engster
2010-12-17 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
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