Re: Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorthands have landed on master)

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Allowing things to not be what they seem adds an additional cognitive 
> > load to *everything* you look at, because everything has the potential 
> > to not be what it seems, and so I think this makes codebases harder to 
> > read and understand, generally.

+1

> Perhaps we could alleviate this by requiring that shorthands end with a 
> particular character (like '/' or ':'), so that if you see it in a name, 
> it's probably a shorthand.

I'd vote for '@'.  It's not used in core nor in ELPA, it's only used in 
(very few) MELPA packages.