Re: Dialling down symbol escaping slightly?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>>> Does anybody see any problems with tweaking the printer to drop escaping
>>> "." and "?" (except in the two cases described above)?
>>
>> Wouldn't that also need a similar tweak to the Lisp reader?
>
> Nope.  The Lisp reader has no problems with unescaped "." and "?"
> characters in symbols (except as described).

Or rather -- that's what I was kind of asking -- whether doing what I
described would break the Lisp reader in any way.  I don't think so, but
there may be cases I'm not aware of.

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