Re: A read-based grep-like for symbols (el-search?) (was Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorthands have landed on master))

[Gregory Heytings]

> Grep is a tool, a tool to search text.  It is only able to respond to 
> questions about a program's source when that source is written in text 
> files (which it normally is) and when the programming language is 
> relatively poor on indirection.

The objections raised in this discussion are not only about grep.  They 
are also about tag systems (that can do more complex operations than grep 
on source files), and about the problem of code readability for Elisp 
programmers.  All of a sudden symbols can silently be transformed by 
'read' without any clear indication that such a transformation takes 
place.