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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:22:18 +0200

Tom Gillespie <[email-masked]> writes:

> If I were to send a patch with such functionality and stability
> guarantees would it be considered?

Like I've said before, we (the Emacs maintainers) would not guarantee
that Emacs' `prin1' will remain the same.  If you want to create a
package that does printing in a different way, you're free to do so, of
course -- we have the `cl-prin1' framework in Emacs already, and you can
use that to print things any way you want o.

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