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


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:59:13 +0100
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> Occasional contributors may be fascinated by cl-lib, and
> learn enough of it to use random bits of it in their code.
> The trouble is, each such contributor uses a different piece
> of cl-lib, with the result that those who end up maintaining
> it need to know a far greater part of it just to cope.

Yes, this sounds like a good explanation how the situation has
appeared. We see how two worlds collide.

But how do you propose to improve the situation, then?

Maybe maintaining can be distributed so that the "occasional
contributors" are maintaining their own code?

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