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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:

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

Yes, it'll break a lot of tooling.  For the record, I was against adding
this functionality, but I was outvoted.  (Which is fine.)

My argument was: If we want to add something along these lines, it
should be more like Common Lisp's package system.  (Not that that's a
perfect system -- I wouldn't want to add it wholesale, but it's pretty
good, and we could take the good parts.)  And, yes, doing that would
also require a lot of tooling changes, which I'd want to see happen
before doing it.

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