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))

[João Távora]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2021, 10:04 Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> wrote:

AFAIK, no other language use a shorthand-like approach to implement
namespaces.  That's perhaps not without a reason.

All of the catastrophical grep problems you and others insist on so much apply equally to other languages' systems. That's just a fact, so this particular argument of singling out shorthands comparatively is probably the most absurd one so far. 

João