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| From: | Noam Postavsky |
| Subject: | bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91 |
| Date: | Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:40:15 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes: > But may I ask why such "strange quote" characters are not > taken as lisp-symbol constituent characters? Why the need > to escape them? Why are they treated specially? > > That description describes a workaround "to avoid confusion", > but it's not clear why we need "to avoid confusion". To give a less confusing error in cases like Bug#2967 and Bug#23425.
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