Re: Why is ,. (comma-dot) treated specially?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Is this a feature that was planned but is not yet finished? Why is the
> dot handled specially after a comma if we don't do anything with it?

Using special characters (like dot) in symbols is risky.  Always has
been always will be.

> I ran into a problem the other day where writing
>     `(message ,.some-var)
> unexpectedly split the .some-var symbol without evaluating anything:
>     (message (\,\. some-var))

I'm not surprised it doesn't do what you expected, but I'm admittedly
surprised of the actual behavior.  In any case, this looks like
a plain bug.


        Stefan