Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[tomas]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 10:54:54AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:38:41 +0100
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 07:45:39AM +0100, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
> > > Since Richard is swamped with mails, I'd like to try and ask some
> > > questions here.
> > 
> > I had similar feelings about shorthands vs. (module) name spaces.
> > 
> > I just couldn't figure out whether this was due to habituation
> > or whether I was feeling a "real" problem
> 
> Before everyone starts presenting here that we made some nonsensical
> decision when we added shorthands, let me remind us that it was added
> to allow us to use packages like "s" (https://github.com/magnars/s.el),
> "f" (https://github.com/rejeep/f.el) and other similar ones, which use
> "problematic" function names.  We wanted to be able to use packages
> which have dependencies of those, while at the same time providing
> reasonably-named aliases for them.  (Gerd wasn't around back then, so
> he is excused, but the rest of us were here, so please let's not
> pretend those discussions never happened.)

I don't know who you mean by "us". I'm not pretending anything. I do
know that discussion happened.

Cheers
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t

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