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On Dez 01 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Exactly my point: these periods and other special characters are
> "magic" in pcase, but not elsewhere in Lisp.

This is not true.  There is no magic at all in the use of this reader
feature which is totally lost after reading.  It is absolutely
impossible to detect its use afterwards.

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