[slime-devel] . in wrong context

[Raymond Wiker]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I've seen the same behaviour with XEmacs 21.5b28...