Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:38:41 +0100
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 07:45:39AM +0100, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
> > Since Richard is swamped with mails, I'd like to try and ask some
> > questions here.
> 
> I had similar feelings about shorthands vs. (module) name spaces.
> 
> I just couldn't figure out whether this was due to habituation
> or whether I was feeling a "real" problem

Before everyone starts presenting here that we made some nonsensical
decision when we added shorthands, let me remind us that it was added
to allow us to use packages like "s" (https://github.com/magnars/s.el),
"f" (https://github.com/rejeep/f.el) and other similar ones, which use
"problematic" function names.  We wanted to be able to use packages
which have dependencies of those, while at the same time providing
reasonably-named aliases for them.  (Gerd wasn't around back then, so
he is excused, but the rest of us were here, so please let's not
pretend those discussions never happened.)

See the following long discussions:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-04/msg02055.html
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg00016.html