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

[André A . Gomes]

Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> writes:

> That's why good programmers make effort to choose good names independent
> of language.
>
> Lots of Common Lisp code is awful because people play clever tricks with
> names and packages, symbol import, export, shadowing.

Such claims aren't at all rare, but I wouldn't expect to read them on
the Emacs mailing list.

Unix, why did you spread like a virus?  Why "worse is better"?  This is
backwards...


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André A. Gomes
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