Subject: bug#54797: 27.1; "Old-style backquotes detected!" when there are no backquotes.

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 10:39:39 +0200

Bruce Mardle <[email-masked]> writes:

> Short version:
> Try to evaluate
> '(, foo)
> and you'll get (error "Old-style backquotes detected!"), which is
> confusing considering that the expression doesn't contain a backquote!

I can reproduce this in Emacs 27.1, but not in Emacs 28.1 (it just
evaluates to ((\, foo))), so I guess this has been fixed now.

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