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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 15:39:48 +0000
> Cc: acm@muc.de, dmitry@gutov.dev, bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> And what I'm trying to say is that all those difficulties are much
> much less importnat than shortcomings in domain knowledge.

Not IME, FWIW.

> Maybe _somewhat_ easier, but to what loss?  Aggravated contributors,
> endless hair-splitting of what exactly good style is.   And style
> preferences change anyway: what I "liked" 10 years ago is not what
> I like now. It's really a bad idea.

You will not find any message from me that says we should ban cl-lib.
Maybe you are confusing me with someone else.  All I'm saying is that
people should not dismiss this aspect so easily, when they consider
the subject.  It is not just a coding style issue.