[slime-devel] . in wrong context

[Faré]

2009/5/14 Faré <fahree at gmail.com>:
> Emacs 23 doesn't like variable named .old-prompt. in
> contrib/slime-repl.el -- it borks with:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax ". in wrong context")
>  load-internal("slime-repl" nil t nil undecided)
>
> Renaming to %old-prompt% works. Is it dynamic binding forcing us to
> have ugly variable names? Sigh.
>
Actually, it was XEmacs 21.4 (patch 21) "Educational Television"
[Lucid] (x86_64-linux-gnu, Mule) with various libraries loaded.

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