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

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:44:10 +0100

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> Still, could you please show these uses of bare "\,"
> explicitly?
>
>  $ clisp -q -x '`\,'
>  $ clisp -q -x '`(\, x)'

| micha> clisp -q -x '`\,'
| |,|
| micha> clisp -q -x '`(\, x)'
| (|,| X)

In Emacs we could as well change the symbol (or whatever object) used as
"tag" for the expansion of the `,` reader construct.  But unless this
solves some practical problem, since there is the cost of breaking code,
I don't understand why we are still discussing this.

You would suggest to make a change like this, Drew?

Michael.