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

[Adam Porter]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>> 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.
>
> I'd vote for '@'.  It's not used in core nor in ELPA, it's only used
> in (very few) MELPA packages.

I wouldn't like seeing "@" in symbol names, IMHO.  And we may be getting
ahead of ourselves.  But let the bikeshedding commence.  :)

    Adam (who may someday use "~/" as a local shorthand in packages)