Re: [PATCH 1/2] symbols: improve symbol aliasing

[Valentin Tolmer]

> Don't you think that these guys should still work on symbols
> as before, but process their content behind the scenes?
>
> I think that these changes should be mostly internal, and
> virtualy invisible from the call sites.
I thought so, too, but apart from somewhat simplifying the code, it 
seemed to make more sense to call the function on the content, as this 
is what we want to modify. But if you think it's better to make the 
changes transparent, I understand, and will revert.