Re: old-style backquotes now generates void macro

[Stefan Monnier]

> ,----[ *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