From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: old-style backquotes now generates void macro Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:11:54 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87mxoawchk.fsf@anar.kanru.info> <874oahmd96.fsf@anar.kanru.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292580868 30828 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2010 10:14:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:14:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kan-Ru Chen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 17 11:14:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTXKQ-0007wX-J1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:14:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PTXKP-0000Jb-WD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:14:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35812 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PTXI5-0007mY-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:11:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PTXI3-0003cT-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:11:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:63194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PTXI3-0003cE-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so461853wwb.30 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:11:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=jeZ3qTcqRMqXOnYGnWvDq4y563qga2IhcSkGkeZoQ7A=; b=BhGPiJvBM9GhFQ3Nl4pyqKq4VkFVYgmytPizpdZbjB2Gb5HP5f7uLYi4qMoc9ldK5i kYjAu/pfoG36vSspJBgYDzRTQBud4fgOMIzwbsw1FyTU7H39QUDVOqVO0Z7Zg/T/nCiJ bJhDicDOS76ba6oGt7zjhdP7Z2RcjwcjO8izk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=pcctzncN1MPlON+0UuUKxo9QDH9BEGqXBmr/gX749Ddisd1m5JsSE0+bT01NvOv35C YZwd/lRssmbLwzECqLcD3IpccFeWnWBekbushQZoZI3PTXVkmVyXprIvHkioQ2jcacKl EYswPIMOb2PD5TdZG77emcCsJ9CQv16ejn6lA= Original-Received: by 10.216.15.75 with SMTP id e53mr3445135wee.107.1292580714438; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:11:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Victoria.local (cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com [86.9.122.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x3sm61185wes.46.2010.12.17.02.11.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:11:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:28:44 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.91 (Mac OS X 10.6.5) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133763 Archived-At: On 2010-12-17 03:28 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote: > "obsolete" basically means "unsupported". But in order not to alienate > our users who don't always have the ability to fix the code they use, > we tend to keep obsolete features working, sometimes far too long. I think packages most users use are well supported i.e. any trivial bugs like these are fixed promptly. The thing though is they don't know when the obsolete features are going, so they sometimes keep using them until absolutely have to change. Leo -- Oracle is the new evil