Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.

From: Clément Pit-Claudel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 17:05:43 -0400

On 2017-06-05 16:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>  How do you propose to prevent such puzzlement and anger in the
> future, if not by %` and %'?

Note that this introduces a backwards compatibility issue, if not done carefully:

  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Not enough arguments for format string")
    message("%`woops%'")
    eval((message "%`woops%'") nil)

Did something similar happen with \=' ?

Clément.