#3748 Patch: Allow assignments with property paths to use x.y.z = value syntax

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Originally created by: dak@gnu.org
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Allow assignments with property paths to use x.y.z = value syntax

This is actually an embarrassing oversight in issue 2883: while it
became possible to rewrite

    markup-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #25
as
    markup-system-spacing minimum-distance = #25

it has been overlooked to allow for the obvious

    markup-system-spacing.minimum-distance = #25

I am tempted to sneak this into 2.18.0 yet since this is

a) trivial
b) will match user expectations

Of course, the current time frame would not allow regtests and usage
examples to be added: this would simply be provided in order to avoid
surprises to people who assume this should work.

http://codereview.appspot.com/39360044

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Originally posted by: dak@gnu.org

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Originally posted by: dak@gnu.org

Patchy the autobot says: passes tests.

Labels: -Patch-new Patch-review

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Patch on countdown for Dec 28th - 06:00 GMT

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Originally posted by: dak@gnu.org

Shortcircuiting this one.  It's trivial, quite desirable, and I want to backport.
Pushed to staging as
commit [ra7eb9033f29d35d110afd1730a238f5c50e00369]
Author: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date:   Sun Dec 22 20:38:22 2013 +0100

    Issue 3748: Allow assignments with property paths to use x.y.z = value syntax
   
    This is actually an embarrassing oversight in issue 2883: while it
    became possible to rewrite
   
        markup-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #25
    as
        markup-system-spacing minimum-distance = #25
   
    it has been overlooked to allow for the obvious
   
        markup-system-spacing.minimum-distance = #25

Labels: -Patch-countdown Fixed_2_19_0 Backport_2_18_0
Status: Fixed

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Originally posted by: dak@gnu.org

Pushed to stable/2.18 as
commit [reff4ab669513f38f14cc6d01b24bead358124da1]
Author: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date:   Sun Dec 22 20:38:22 2013 +0100

    Issue 3748: Allow assignments with property paths to use x.y.z = value syntax
   
    This is actually an embarrassing oversight in issue 2883: while it
    became possible to rewrite
   
        markup-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #25
    as
        markup-system-spacing minimum-distance = #25
   
    it has been overlooked to allow for the obvious
   
        markup-system-spacing.minimum-distance = #25

Labels: -Backport_2_18_0 Fixed_2_17_98

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