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Re: Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorth


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorthands have landed on master)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:03:11 -0400

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  > Yes, it'll break a lot of tooling.

Can you report any specific problems?

  > My argument was: If we want to add something along these lines, it
  > should be more like Common Lisp's package system.

That is far more complex and has deep flaws.  The symbol prefix renaming
feature is much cleaner.

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