GNU bug report logs - #18909
24.4.50; unexpected (prin1-to-string '(foo "bar") t)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Oleh <ohwoeowho <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:41:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 18909 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Oleh <ohwoeowho <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18909 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18909: 24.4.50; unexpected (prin1-to-string '(foo "bar") t)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:16:27 -0400

I don't think you can get what you want with the current code.
The best you can do is (prin1-to-string '(foo.bar "baz")) and then
do a search-and-replace of the "\\.".  But note that the "." is escaped
this way in order to avoid ambiguity with the "." used to separate the
car from the cdr of a cons cell, so you should not unescape every single
"\\.", only the ones where the reader recognizes the "." has being part
of the symbol.


        Stefan
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