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| author | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2018-03-10 18:20:45 -0500 |
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| committer | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2019-11-28 18:03:42 -0500 |
| commit | 85f586f3ce5c6d9598d345440fd57e0fc9b8d98b (patch) | |
| tree | 10723ac9f3d20dc4a4bb045b1e58c02234a9c9e5 /etc | |
| parent | 98f8c5fb07dcb4e20b8ba6648bdabf5c0d3b5145 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-85f586f3ce5c6d9598d345440fd57e0fc9b8d98b.tar.gz | |
Stop signaling an error when reading "smart quotes" in symbols
Revert commits from 2018-01-28 "Fix round tripping of read->print for
symbols with strange quotes", and 2017-07-22 "Signal error for symbol
names with strange quotes (Bug#2967)".
* etc/NEWS: Remove corresponding entries.
* src/character.c (confusable_symbol_character_p):
* test/src/lread-tests.el (lread-tests--old-style-backquotes): Remove.
* src/lread.c (read1): Don't signal error on confusable character.
* src/print.c (print_object): Don't escape confusable characters.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 9 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -2972,15 +2972,6 @@ and if the new behavior breaks your code please email <32252@debbugs.gnu.org>. Because '%o' and '%x' can now format signed integers, they now support the '+' and space flags. -** To avoid confusion caused by "smart quotes", the reader signals an -error when reading Lisp symbols which begin with one of the following -quotation characters: ‘’‛“”‟〞＂＇. A symbol beginning with such a -character can be written by escaping the quotation character with a -backslash. For example: - - (read "‘smart") => (invalid-read-syntax "strange quote" "‘") - (read "\\‘smart") == (intern "‘smart") - +++ ** Omitting variables after '&optional' and '&rest' is now allowed. For example '(defun foo (&optional))' is no longer an error. This is |