On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 10:54:54AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:38:41 +0100 > > From: > > > > 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.) I don't know who you mean by "us". I'm not pretending anything. I do know that discussion happened. Cheers -- t