Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[Gerd Möllmann]

Thank you very much for your point of view, Helmut!

> There may also be technical problems with 3., but the CL community
> probably knows them and the workarounds.  

Yes to both.

But let me add, as notorious trouble-maker, that shorthands consist of 
problems only.  The fact that no-one seems to want to ask why I think 
that, I interpret as meaning that this is a well-known fact :-).

> But I think 3. will not happen
> mainly for political/ideological reasons.

Let's see.  I hope that ideology doesn't play a role in Emacs, and 
Richard simply didn't have the necessary information to change his mind.