Comment 3 for bug 1116213

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Stelian Ionescu (sionescu) wrote : Re: [Bug 1116213] [NEW] please don't use one-letter nicknames (eg :d)

On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 12:42 +0000, Tamas Papp wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> CLNU> (package-nicknames :asdf-driver)
> ("ASDF-UTILS" "ASDF-DRIVER" "D")
>
> Although there is no agreed-upon policy against very short nicknames, I
> don't think that one- or two-letter nicknames are a very good idea for
> non-internal use, as clashes are very likely.

I agree. Better reserve short nicknames for private code.

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