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Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 19:19:41 -0400

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Backquote is a well-known construct, a de-facto standard since over 40
years ago.  For a while, backquote in Emacs Lisp was incompatible with
the standard, because I was trying to keep the code small.  But in the
90s we changed Emacs Lisp to fit the standard.

To change it is unthinkable.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)





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