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

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Since Lisp, after all, is supposed to be a functional language, I'd like
> to see Emacs Lisp not penalize functional programming styles.  Currently
> it does,

Not just With regard to performance, but also input readability (neither
`(lambda ... ,outer ...) nor the crutches involving make-symbol are
really straightforward), and predictability (dynamic rebinding!).

> and so I don't think general-purpose iteration constructs encouraging
> lambda predicates are a good idea for now.

-- 
David Kastrup