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forward-sexp parses character literal ?; as comment

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Message #56 received at 4030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, 4030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 era+emacsbugs <at> iki.fi
Subject: Re: bug#4030: forward-sexp parses character literal ?; as comment
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:31:39 -0400

> Does anyone have any further thoughts?  It wasn't clear to me from this
> discussion whether there was any consensus that this was actually a bug
> or not.

With the support for syntax-fontification "on-the-fly" within
forward-sexp, we could actually make forward-sexp handle those
cases correctly nowadays.

So we can either:
- make it work with a syntax-propertize-function.  Not sure it's worth
  the cost.
- deprecate ?; and friends, probably adding font-lock highlights to help
  spot the problematic cases, and maybe changing the Lisp reader code to
  warn about those things as well (with intention to remove support for
  them).
- keep on living with this occasional problem.


        Stefan

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