Hello all,

I can speak for myself that I religiously follow the convention to use
#'SYMBOL instead of 'SYMBOL where SYMBOL is expected to be a function in
the form where it's used; exactly for the reasons that Stephan mentioned.
In addition, to the user it becomes evident if that symbol is expected to
be a function or not.

I use that convention in my emacs config, packages, etc. I have even seen
that convention in many other packages and configs too, from what I follow
on emacs.stackexchange, reddit, etc.

This[1] is a very popular post out in the wild, by Artur Malabarba that
explains why and when one should use sharp-quotes or hash-quotes.

If we are counting votes to add this to the official documentation, my vote
is in :)

[1]:
http://endlessparentheses.com/get-in-the-habit-of-using-sharp-quote.html

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:48 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

> > As long as we (or, rather, you) tell others to prefer that style, it's
> > not way down the list.
>
> I didn't tell anyone to prefer that style, actually (or at least,
> I tried to write it such that it doesn't say that, maybe I failed).
> I just wanted to point out that recentish changes make the difference
> between 'foo and #'foo slightly more visible and as a result you might
> like to reconsider your recommendation to strip the #.  You might still
> decide that the # is too ugly to keep it where it's not
> absolutely needed.
>
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Kaushal Modi