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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Of course not.  And comment blocks are not a problem AFAICS, visiting 
> > the file will clearly show that this is not an actual call.  In C it's 
> > preprocessing that is a problem.  And function pointers.
>
> Uhhh, indirection, tremble!!!  Nice one, function pointers! Fortunately 
> no-one ever, ever, stores functions in variables in Lisp.  Phew!

Inopportune irony.  I mentioned calling function in variables two lines 
above: "Even a tool that would be aware of the Lisp read primitive cannot 
categorically answer that question, for example when function names are 
created dynamically, or with (apply variable args)."