Re: dash.el [was: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs]

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I would go for the macro syntax because is could be made backward
  > compatible with Emacs-27 (as seq.el was with Emacs-24), which the reader
  > macro cannot.

I see your point, but I disagree with the conclusion because I don't
think we need to start _using_ this syntax in external packages right
away.  So I think we should choose the syntax which is better in the
long term rather than let backwards compatibility fix this forever.

However, we could implement both syntaxes, use the $ syntax in the
short term, and convert external packages to the # syntax in a few
years.

Let's see what Eli thinks about it.

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