Subject: bug#59082: 28.2; Undocumented `intern-soft` feature with shorthands symbols

From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:18:57 +0000

Of course. And for blue the programmer should just use the names of the
symbols there, as always. Shorthands are not the names of symbols, as i
keep reminding.

If the docstring reader is ever enhanced, then maybe programmers can refer
to symbols there using shorthands. Until then, shorthands are Lisp-only.

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 17:01 Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:46:51 +0000
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> >
> > Hmm, not sure we should be using shorthands in docstrings, which aren't
> read by the Lisp reader, but by
> > something else... This is what is at stake, right?
>
> References to functions and variables in doc strings are a matter of
> routine.
>