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Re: old-style backquotes now generates void macro


From: Leo
Subject: Re: old-style backquotes now generates void macro
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:11:54 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.91 (Mac OS X 10.6.5)

On 2010-12-17 03:28 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> "obsolete" basically means "unsupported". But in order not to alienate
> our users who don't always have the ability to fix the code they use,
> we tend to keep obsolete features working, sometimes far too long.

I think packages most users use are well supported i.e. any trivial bugs
like these are fixed promptly. The thing though is they don't know when
the obsolete features are going, so they sometimes keep using them until
absolutely have to change.

Leo

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