Subject: bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:21:02 -0700 (PDT)

> > The name of the symbol is "foo.", not "foo\.".
> 
> Both refer to the same symbol, as does "\foo.".

Not as `symbol-name' values, they don't.

The point is to show the symbol _name_, and to do so in a
way that is clear to anyone.

> > Or better yet, to remove all ambiguity, even for characters
> > such as SPC in the function name, enclose the name in `...':
> 
> The name as printed is already unambigous.

"bar\ is a Lisp function." is not only unclear; it is incorrect.

And if you want to be pedantic, and you think there is already
no room for ambiguity, substitute "possible confusion".  Emacs
is not being as clear as it could be, and that is especially
important for someone new to Emacs and Emacs Lisp.