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[PATCH] Always print commas and comma-ats specially

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 72334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#72334: [PATCH] Always print commas and comma-ats specially
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:53:39 -0800

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:

> On Feb 11 2025, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>
>> BTW, I note that while in ELisp
>>
>>     ,bar
>>
>> prints as
>>
>>     (\, bar)
>
> (car ',bar) => \,
>
>> in Scheme it prints as the somewhat nicer
>>
>>     (unquote bar)
>
> (car ',bar) => unquote
>
> They just use different symbols to implement the \, reader macro.

Yes, of course.  I'm saying that ours is.. less pretty.

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