Hello all,
I can speak for myself that I religiously follow the convention to use #'SYMBOL instead of 'SYMBOL where SYMBOL is expected to be a function in the form where it's used; exactly for the reasons that Stephan mentioned. In addition, to the user it becomes evident if that symbol is expected to be a function or not.
I use that convention in my emacs config, packages, etc. I have even seen that convention in many other packages and configs too, from what I follow on emacs.stackexchange, reddit, etc.
This[1] is a very popular post out in the wild, by Artur Malabarba that explains why and when one should use sharp-quotes or hash-quotes.
If we are counting votes to add this to the official documentation, my vote is in :)
[1]:
http://endlessparentheses.com/get-in-the-habit-of-using-sharp-quote.htmlOn Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:48 PM Stefan Monnier <
address@hidden> wrote:
> As long as we (or, rather, you) tell others to prefer that style, it's
> not way down the list.
I didn't tell anyone to prefer that style, actually (or at least,
I tried to write it such that it doesn't say that, maybe I failed).
I just wanted to point out that recentish changes make the difference
between 'foo and #'foo slightly more visible and as a result you might
like to reconsider your recommendation to strip the #. You might still
decide that the # is too ugly to keep it where it's not
absolutely needed.