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

[Emanuel Berg]

Bob Rogers wrote:

> I'm sorry I'm apparently unable to be more concrete about
> explaining my impressions. Part of this is due to the
> elapsed time. ISTR that, when I started reading Elisp in the
> mid-90's, it had a "retro" feel compared to the other Lisps
> I was using. As time went on, I've had to hit C-h f more and
> more to understand what was going on, not only for language
> features (pcase has been mentioned), but for editing
> features like indirect buffers and overlays as they were
> added -- not strictly part of the language, but again,
> where's do you draw the boundary?

To be honest, I have not seen any.

>> Case in point, I don't see any such difference when I look
>> at cl-lib.el?
>
> Between cl-lib.el and what?

We have to get the Emacs 18 source so we can compare :)

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