GNU bug report logs - #55645
src/print.c; print_object changes make it impossible to compare elisp code across versions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 23:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, wontfix

Done: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 55645 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55645: src/print.c; print_object changes make it impossible to compare elisp code across versions
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2022 14:09:06 +0200

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

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

It's mostly natural when dealing with data that arrives from other
programming languages that we then have turned into symbols.  So you
have symbols like `vnd.ms-excel' etc.  (We don't use dots in
function/variable names.)

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