Re: Shorthands have landed on master

[Philip Kaludercic]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

>> This was in reference to the compat.el discussion from a few days
>> ago. It was mentioned that shorthands might provide an alternative to
>> aliasing function definitions. But this doesn't make much sense, if a
>> prefix has to be used, short or long: I want to call
>> (macroexp-file-name), not (co-macroexp-file-name), (~macroexp-file-name)
>> or (compat--macroexp-file-name) to provide transparent compatibility.
>
> If I understand this right, then I think you may solve it similarly to the
> cl- situation.
>
> But you understand that, for the moment, shorthands are only supported in
> Emacs 28, right?  Not sure where (in which versions) the library you're
> intending to write would be loaded.  If that library is loaded in Emacs 27,
> elisp-shorthands is simply ignored and the file is loaded normally.

Yes, my idea was to use shorthands for versions greater or equal to
28.1. 

> João

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        Philip Kaludercic