From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Error in nested backquoting Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:53:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <51D0B51D.1080003@ditec.um.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372665204 24593 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 07:53:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 07:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Diego Sevilla Ruiz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 01 09:53:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UtYvE-0003D4-L6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:53:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34657 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtYvE-0006OT-BO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 03:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtYv9-0006NW-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 03:53:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtYv5-0005uQ-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 03:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:44471 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtYv5-0005tL-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 03:53:07 -0400 Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A52A543A; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:53:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: If I felt any more SOPHISTICATED I would DIE of EMBARRASSMENT! In-Reply-To: <51D0B51D.1080003@ditec.um.es> (Diego Sevilla Ruiz's message of "Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:45:49 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161398 Archived-At: Diego Sevilla Ruiz writes: > In backquote expansion, the symbol for backquote (`) is treated > specially for nested backquoting, but its alias, backquote (if it is > intended for it to be used from elisp programs) is not correctly evaluated > in nesting. Since backquote expansion is purely syntactical, I don't think the backquote symbol should have any significance in the process. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."