Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Tassilo Horn]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>> ‘foo-bar’ is ambiguous.
>
> Not in current Emacs.  It's a quoted symbol when it appears in a
> docstring, just as `foo-bar' is a quoted symbol.

Well, there could be

(defun foo-bar ()
  "Computes the Foo-Bar sequence.
For a description of the Foo-Bar sequence, see
‘Foo-Bar’, John Doe et al., Proceedings on Foo Bar, 2012."
  ...)

where ‘Foo-Bar’ is a real quote rather than a symbol markup.  Of
courses, such cases are probably rare but still there's a point in
having symbol markup separated from quoting.  (Well, ok, then the above
quote should simply be changed to “Foo-Bar” and we're good again.)

Bye,
Tassilo