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

[Po Lu]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> Composition, not "combination" You find it in mathematics.
> Pretty useful many contexts.  IMHO of course.
>
> Anyway, I don't think this argument has any end.  You don't seem to
> have any concept of information hiding, abstraction reuse, etc.

Yes, why should I chase chimeras, when I could as easily get down to
work?

To mention an example that is perhaps a tadge closer to home,
c-forward-decl-or-cast-1 is a function you would certainly advocate the
balkanization of.  But if it is ultimately divvied up into dozens of
private functions, of which it remains the only caller, what use will
the CC Mode user have gotten out of the process?  CC Mode will only have
become that much slower, and, where CC Mode is concerned, speed is like
gold dust.

> Nor do you seem to have any inclination to start actually acting
> on that purported plan of yours, even where there is clear
> agreement on specific parts of it.

Where's the agreement?