Subject: Re: bug#24295: 24.5; RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK has punctuation syntax in Elisp, but acts like a symbol constituent

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:29:22 -0400

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

[I replaced =A1=AF with ’ in the quoted text]

> In an Emacs-Lisp buffer or in *scratch*, use `C-u C-x =3D' on this
> character: ’ (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK).  It tells you that its
> syntax is punctuation.
>
> But (setq foo (intern "ab’cd’ef")) shows that it acts like a
> symbol-constituent character.

In what way does it show that??  A symbol's name can be any arbitrary
string, there's no significance to the syntax class of the characters.