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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: paaguti@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:30:47 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: paaguti@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:08:09 +0100
> >> 
> >> What I'm missing is a positive reason why to use it. I don't see one.
> >
> > It's preloaded.  I think this is a good reason for using it.
> 
> Sparing 10^-7 seconds, when cl-lib is already loaded anyway?

These are not the only situations in Emacs.  For example, in preloaded
code.

> > The fact
> > that it's preloaded should also say something about how the Emacs
> > maintainers see seq.el and its future.
> 
> I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but that's kind of a weak
> argument. And an entirely non-technical one.

When we decided to preload it, the reasons were technical.  So I don't
see why the above is not a technical argument.