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

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 01:18:54 +0100

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> You mean the reader should emit a warning?  Note that at least
> expressions printed by Emacs itself might be printed like this, e.g.
>
>   (nth 1 '`(a . ,b)) ==> (a \, b)
>
> so you would get warnings for automatically generated code.

An example is even in the original report.

Maybe the printer could be taught to print (... . ,X) in this form
instead of (... \, X).

Michael.