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Re: old-style backquotes now generates void macro
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: old-style backquotes now generates void macro |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:55:51 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> ,----[ *Compile-Log* ]
> | Compiling file /home/kanru/test.el at Mon Dec 13 11:45:18 2010
> | test.el:1:1:Warning: !! The file uses old-style backquotes !!
> | This functionality has been obsolete for more than 10 years already
> | and will be removed soon. See (elisp)Backquote in the manual.
> | test.el:4:8:Error: Symbol's function definition is void:
> `----
> Affected package like APEL and BBDB cannot be compiled now. Is this
> intended to push the phase out of old-style backquotes?
There's indeed a newly introduced bug in the old-style backquote code.
It'll get fixed before the Emacs-24 release, but in the mean time you'd
be well-advised to get rid of that dinosaur in "your" source code.
Stefan