Subject: Re: bug#55645: src/print.c; print_object changes make it impossible to compare elisp code across versions

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2022 19:53:08 +0800

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> It was mostly an aesthetic change, but sometimes aesthetics are
> important.  People do use dot characters in symbols, but it's confusing
> to see Emacs display these in a weird way -- so they may be discouraged
> from doing so when that's a natural thing to do.

FWIW, I don't see how it's natural to use dots in symbols.  It certainly
feels weird to me.

Symbol names should ideally consist of the punctuation characters
"-+=*/", letters and digits.