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A Note And A Warning About The Use Of Shorthands In Elisp Code.
Date published:In a previous post I wrote about elisp shorthands and how to properly use them.
A comment on my MELPA submission for fancy-urls-menu by riscy (aka Chris Rayner) a real elisp boffin who knows much more about actual Emacs development than I do says one should avoid shorthands altogether, and he gives very good reasons:
Tag feeds:I'm unsure specifically what issue you refer to, but as a code reviewer I am not currently a huge fan of shorthands. A lot of the tooling is not ready for them yet: not only the linters, but also simple tools for quickly jumping around between definitions, the ability to grep for code using function/variable names, the ability to copy-paste-execute code in other contexts and have it mean the same thing. Or maybe most importantly, the ability to parachute into a particular line of a particular elisp file and comprehend (or at least prove something about) what's going on without a lot of assumed context (which is also a problem with other programming techniques e.g. inheritance and metaprogramming).
I understand where they're useful but I (personally) think it can be selfish for a package author to use them and I'm glad you moved away from them :)
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