Re: Shorthands have landed on master

[João Távora]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 11:38 PM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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>   > > It looks like "-" as a shorthand prefix should not rename `-'.  I can
>   > > imagine various ways to fix this, some more general and some less
>   > > general.
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>   > Yes, me too.  And they would need to be put in place if we want to import
>   > Magnar Sveen's dash.el library (which uses that prefix), or any of the 
> many
>   > libraries that depend on dash.el into Emacs, GNU Elpa or non-GNU Elpa.
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> We certainly want to do this.  Can you suggest the way to fix this problem?

The easiest way would seem not to rename a symbol that is nothing more than
the configured shorthand prefix.  i.e. doesn't have a suffix.  That is
what happens
with '-'.

João