Re: Why aren't there functions such as filter, take-while, etc. "by default"?

[David Kastrup]

Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> writes:

> Why does it have to be so hard to write Emacs Lisp without requiring cl?
>
> Why aren't there functions such as filter (the equivalent of
> remove-if-not in cl-seq.el), take-while, reduce etc. "native" in
> Emacs?

They make for no-surprise efficient programs primarily when the language
has lexical closures.

-- 
David Kastrup