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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28.09.2021 15:49, Phil Sainty wrote:
> Allowing things to not be what they seem adds an additional cognitive
> load to *everything* you look at, because everything has the potential
> to not be what it seems, and so I think this makes codebases harder to
> read and understand, generally.

Perhaps we could alleviate this by requiring that shorthands end with a 
particular character (like '/' or ':'), so that if you see it in a name, 
it's probably a shorthand.

There is code out there which uses those characters as well, but it's 
not that frequent and could be phased out.