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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:42:18 +0100

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> . and \. are different syntactic entities.
>>
>> So the answer is "no"?
>
> \. is a symbol.

I know.  So are foo. and foo\. -- the same symbol.  If your point is
that "." should always be quoted in symbols because the standalone
`.' symbol has to be quoted (to avoid special-casing anything here), then
that's fair enough, but I wondered whether there was anything further
beyond that.

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