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Re: String syntax ambiguity
From:
Dave Love
Subject:
Re: String syntax ambiguity
Date:
09 Jan 2002 00:21:19 +0000
User-agent:
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.30
>>>>> Richard Stallman writes:
> I still think a hash read syntax for strings would be better than a
> backwards-incompatible kludge.
> This would be extremely undesirable. It would be ugly
I don't see why, more than other such syntax.
> and could not be read *at all* by old versions of Emacs.
That sounds like an argument against _any_ new reader features,
e.g. #x in 21.1. Anyhow, I only expected it to be used in special
cases. I think it's better if you got an obvious error in an old
version rather than potentially just doing the wrong thing in a pretty
obscure way.