bug#55645: src/print.c; print_object changes make it impossible to compare elisp code across versions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> FWIW, I don't see how it's natural to use dots in symbols.  It certainly
> feels weird to me.

It's mostly natural when dealing with data that arrives from other
programming languages that we then have turned into symbols.  So you
have symbols like `vnd.ms-excel' etc.  (We don't use dots in
function/variable names.)

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