Re: A read-based grep-like for symbols (el-search?) (was Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorthands have landed on master))

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > Yes, yes, that's basically what happens with Common Lisp, because 
> > > things are separated by `:`.  And in many other languages as you say. 
> > > Unfortunately, it's not 100% clean in Elisp because it relies on 
> > > convention, not syntax.
>
> > It seems very easy to enforce a syntax for this:
>
> It also very easily breaks one of the main use cases for this feature: 
> to import s.el, dash.el, f.el and its user libraries with minimal 
> changes to them.

I probably misunderstand something, but why would it break that use case? 
Could you indicate what would be put in the elisp-shorthands for (a) the 
s.el library, and (b) a user library that uses s.el?