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src/print.c; print_object changes make it impossible to compare elisp code across versions

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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 15:14:15 +0200

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

>> 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.)
>
> But that's not something which happens very often, is it?

I think it might happen more often if the printed representation wasn't
as ugly.

But we do have a bunch of symbols in-tree that uses dots, too:

(mapatoms (lambda (k) (when (string-match "[.]" (symbol-name k))
                          (insert (format "%s\n" k)))))
Lint Directory...
iso10646.indian-1
gb2312.1980-0
cns11643.1992-7
cns11643.1992-6
cns11643.1992-5
cns11643.1992-4
cns11643.1992-3
cns11643.1992-2
cns11643.1992-1
Reset Counters for Function...
Instrument Package...
Lint File...

(etc.)

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