Subject: bug#61281: “`(a \, b)” equals to “`(a . , b)”

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:36:37 +0100

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> > It is obvious that the Lisp implementation of
> > the "`" macro receives symbolic expressions.
>
> This is about the Lisp reader.  When you write
> ",X" in that explanatory comment it's ambiguous
> whether "X" is an arbitrary sequence of chars
> or some Lisp sexp (read separately after reading
> the ",").  ",abcd" is handled differently than
> ", abcd", as we've gone over several times now.

So you want to add to the text that X is an expression?  Or anything
else?  We surely don't want to explain the complete parsing process
there.  What do you suggest to write in that comment?

Michael.