From 627ed9b43cf9cd4d424142bc18171abcd93e0b5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rocky <rb@dustyfeet.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:40:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Remove mention of Slot* as operators

Right now, this interacts badly with ToString and Boxing in mathics-core

When that's addressed, we should reinstate these.
---
 mathics_scanner/data/named-characters.yml | 24 ++++++++++++-----------
 test/test_tokeniser.py                    |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mathics_scanner/data/named-characters.yml b/mathics_scanner/data/named-characters.yml
index 2c633e9..1e8dace 100644
--- a/mathics_scanner/data/named-characters.yml
+++ b/mathics_scanner/data/named-characters.yml
@@ -9756,17 +9756,19 @@ SkeletonIndicator:
   wl-unicode: "\u2043"
   wl-unicode-name: HYPHEN BULLET
 
-Slot:
-  ascii: "#"
-  has-unicode-inverse: false
-  is-letter-like: false
-  operator-name: Slot
-
-SlotSequence:
-  ascii: "##"
-  has-unicode-inverse: false
-  is-letter-like: false
-  operator-name: SlotSequence
+# FIXME: These are commented out because
+# of bugs in ToString in Mathics3-core
+# Slot:
+#   ascii: "#"
+#   has-unicode-inverse: false
+#   is-letter-like: false
+#   operator-name: Slot
+
+# SlotSequence:
+#   ascii: "##"
+#   has-unicode-inverse: false
+#   is-letter-like: false
+#   operator-name: SlotSequence
 
 SmallCircle:
   amslatex: '\circ'
diff --git a/test/test_tokeniser.py b/test/test_tokeniser.py
index fb0c292..d9264ad 100644
--- a/test/test_tokeniser.py
+++ b/test/test_tokeniser.py
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ def test_LITERAL_TOKENS_dict():
             "Symbol",
             "RawColon",
             "Unequal",  # FIXME reinstate this
+            "SlotSequence",  # FIXME reinstate this after ToString is fixes
         ):
             continue
         # In the case of Function, there are several strings representations
@@ -128,6 +129,7 @@ def test_LITERAL_TOKENS_dict():
                 "Semicolon",
                 "Greater",  # FIXME reinstate this
                 "Function",  # FIXME reinstate this
+                "Slot",  # FIXME reinstate this after ToString is corrected.
             ):
                 continue
             for operator in reversed(OPERATOR_TO_STRING[token_name]):