> The change is local and minor. We can't know that. Consider for example someone that has the following line somewhere in their files. #+begin_src org I spent $20 on food and was paid$-10 dollars by friends so I am down $10. #+end_src Yes =paid$-10= is probably a typo that should have a space in between, but it could still be in a file and cause an issue. The more likely case would be of someone that has $ in the name of a variable that also uses dashes. For example if I have a list of variable names such as #+begin_src org Text a $A_BASH_VAR Text b some-$-lisp-var #+end_src
The proposed change would break any file with a pattern like this. We have no way of seeing every org file that users have written so we don't know the extent of the impact, and thus have to assume that there would be some impact. Making such a change with an unknown blast radius in the midst of considering removing support for that syntax altogether is inviting disaster. Best, Tom
