Could we have better support for managing shortcode conflicts

As WordPress’s ecosystem grows, there seems to be a growing potential for conflict between shortcodes.

Now a plugin or template developer can definitely do a hack like this:

function add_shortcode_conditional($tag, $func) {
	global $shortcode_tags;
        if ( ! empty ( $shortcode_tags[$tag]) ) {
              add_shortcode($tag, $func);
        }
        else {
             /* recover somehow or other */
        }
}

But, it would sure be nice if a future WP version had some kind of built-in support for resolving conflicts, and a blessed interface for looking at $shortcode_tags. An add_shortcode filter would also be convenient.

Ideally, there’d be a priority system like the filter system, where a higher-numbered shortcode handler would override a lower-numbered one.

Thanks for considering this.