`public` cannot be used when quoting

General Usage
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To create an expression involving the new “keyword” public of Julia 1.11, one can say something like

julia> Expr(:public, :x)
:(public x)

The following does not work, however:

julia> :(public x)
ERROR: ParseError:
# Error @ REPL[2]:1:10
:(public x)
#        ╙ ── Expected `)`

Maybe this is because public is actually not a reserved keyword. Anyway, is this behaviour intended? Maybe there would be a way to allow the second form even if public is not a reserved keyword. After all, it works outside of quoted expressions.

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