From 85f586f3ce5c6d9598d345440fd57e0fc9b8d98b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Noam Postavsky Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:20:45 -0500 Subject: 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. --- etc/NEWS | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'etc') diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index cb73e46358a..3a2efcfc2e0 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.1