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[PATCH] Don't escape "." in `prin1' unless followed by "?" or nothing

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 77656 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77656: [PATCH] Don't escape "." in `prin1' unless followed by "?" or nothing
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:14:12 +0300

> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:41:56 -0400
> From:  Spencer Baugh via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> This is a followup to 637dde4aba921435f78d0de769ad74c4f3230aa6, which
> removed some unnecessary escaping of "." and "?" when printing symbols
> in prin1.
> 
> This change removes more unnecessary escaping of "."; "." only
> needs to be escaped when it's the entire symbol or if it's
> followed by a "?".
> 
> (Actually, if we always escaped "?" (which was the case before
> 637dde4aba92) then "." only ever needs to be escaped when
> string_to_number returns non-nil.  So 637dde4aba92 could have
> just dropped the escaping of "." with no other changes, if it
> didn't also remove escaping of "?")

Any objections or comments, anyone?

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