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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 23130@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:42:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8wn3tvp.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h787xby2.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:39:17 +0100")

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

>>> . and \. are different syntactic entities.
>>
>> So the answer is "no"?
>
> \. is a symbol.

I know.  So are foo. and foo\. -- the same symbol.  If your point is
that "." should always be quoted in symbols because the standalone
`.' symbol has to be quoted (to avoid special-casing anything here), then
that's fair enough, but I wondered whether there was anything further
beyond that.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-09 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-27 23:25 bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names Drew Adams
2016-03-28  6:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 13:21   ` Drew Adams
2016-03-28 14:26     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 14:48       ` Drew Adams
2016-03-28 15:19         ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 15:23           ` Drew Adams
2016-03-28 16:11             ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 17:08               ` Drew Adams
2016-03-28 17:18                 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-02-08  7:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-08  9:13   ` Andreas Schwab
2022-02-08  9:29     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-08  9:41       ` Andreas Schwab
2022-03-09 16:30         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-09 17:09           ` Andreas Schwab
2022-03-09 17:11             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-09 17:39               ` Andreas Schwab
2022-03-09 17:42                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-03-14  9:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-14 14:50   ` bug#23130: [External] : " Drew Adams

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