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[PATCH] Always print commas and comma-ats specially

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Message #8 received at 72334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 72334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72334: [PATCH] Always print commas and comma-ats specially
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:23:19 -0800

Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com> writes:

> In 55481 the recursion was fixed but backquotes and comma(-at)s were
> left as-is, so as to print comma(-at)s specially only if they are
> escaping a backquote.
>
> This is not particularly useful (and I would argue is bad), so something
> like the attached patch could be a good starting point to make it so
> that they are always printed specially (given `print-quoted' is non-nil
> and it is a proper list of length two - the usual checks for other
> quoted forms), which also solves(maybe? - it was not the primary goal)
> the recursion.  Feel free to change or drop whatever.

Could you please summarize the issue that this is intended to fix?

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