Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 14:22:19 +0000
> Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, emacs-devel 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
>  I included seq.el because I see nothing wrong with adding
>  cl-defmethods to seq.el with more efficient implementations for
>  specific types of sequences.  Whether it does or doesn't make sense
>  depends on the specifics, which are not on the table at this time.  I
>  certainly don't agree with rejecting the idea of adding specific
>  implementations to seq.el, let alone its wholesale rejection,
> 
> I don't reject it either. I just wrote that seq.el can not be "viewed as a 
> drop-in replacement", which in
> common programming talk means we have to look at each "similar implemention" 
> case by case and
> be attentive to where we use each, or to how we recommend its usage.

No one said that seq.el is a "drop-in replacement" for anything.  We
prefer it to be used where that makes sense, because seq.el is
preloaded.