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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > When incorporating whatever you describe as incorporating
  > from cl-* into Elisp (using `equal' as default), I hope
  > you mean giving it some other name than the CL name it
  > has (ignoring the `cl-' prefix or not).

Yes, for sure.  (I thought I had made that explicit.)  The natural
name to use is the existing Emacs Lisp name -- for instance, `member'.

I'm not arguing for adding the :key and :test keyword args to every
function that could support them, or to any functions at all.  But IF
and WHEN we want to have functions supporting those keyword arguments
as parts of Emacs Lisp that programmers need to know about, this is
the clean way to do it.


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