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Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] From: Richard Stallman Subject: Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:35:51 -0500

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  > I don't agree.  Before shorthands, a symbol had one name, after, it can
  > have many.

That is a conceptual misunderstanding.  Making a local alias for a symbol
does not give it "many names".

In this regard, there is no deep difference between shorthands and
:USE.  They both create alternate read syntax for a specific symbol
but it still has only one name.

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