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From: | npostavs |
Subject: | bug#24295: 24.5; RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK has punctuation syntax in Elisp, but acts like a symbol constituent |
Date: | Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:29:22 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes: [I replaced =A1=AF with ’ in the quoted text] > In an Emacs-Lisp buffer or in *scratch*, use `C-u C-x =3D' on this > character: ’ (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK). It tells you that its > syntax is punctuation. > > But (setq foo (intern "ab’cd’ef")) shows that it acts like a > symbol-constituent character. In what way does it show that?? A symbol's name can be any arbitrary string, there's no significance to the syntax class of the characters.
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