Re: Moving kbd to subr.el

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > Why does kbd generate the leading backslash, though?
> >
> > Because it's the way Emacs uses to disambiguate symbols that could be 
> > understood as something else:
> >
> > (defun \0 () (interactive) (message "zero"))
> > M-x 0 RET
>
> In the context of key sequences, it will be mighty confusing, I think.

Yes, but as discussed "123" is not a valid event symbol name anyway.  I 
think it's more a side effect of the general disambiguation mechanism used 
by Emacs than something that kbd does on purpose.