Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorthands have landed on master)

[Phil Sainty]

This has probably been covered in earlier discussions (apologies for
not being across those), but...

Won't this break a ton of basic tooling for locating things, if the
symbol in the file is not the actual symbol?

Simplicity can be a *very* good thing, and knowing that what you see
is in fact what you get is a benefit which shouldn't be undervalued,
IMO.

Name-spaces in other languages I've seen seem to come at a very
significant cost, complicating the tooling and forcing a lot of
things which could previously be take for granted to need changing
(if even possible) so that they are reliant on new features which
"understand" what's going on behind the scenes.

Is whatever we're gaining actually worth the resulting obfuscation?

Long names being "tedious" (quoting the new info manual) to read
and write seems like an insufficient reason, IMHO.


-Phil (who is no doubt WAY too late to the party)