Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[Gerd Möllmann]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > I don't agree.  Symbols are at the heart of Lisp.  Changing their
>   > semantics is a big deal, and as soon as that features is in, it will be
>   > used.
>
> The shorthands feature is already installed, but it doesn't change the
> sematics of symbols.

I don't agree.  Before shorthands, a symbol had one name, after, it can
have many.