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

[João Távora]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 1:04 PM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> That failure belies the alleged advantages of cl-lib, and vindicates all
> Alan and Richard have said thus far: for all their augustness, cl-lib's
> designers did not select an unambiguous English word for a comparatively
> elementary set operation.  Instead devolving responsibility for second
> guessing their intent to such as I and they.

First, that's such a weak pillar which remains on which to base all your
cl-lib.el fury.   Hair-splitting over a word and and bringing up a
dictionary definition written more than 100 years ago when programming
was basically non-existent.

And did you see my reply to Tomas where I listed that at least 5 other
programming languages use the same word (or at least the '-'
operator) for the same operation?  There is indeed such a thing
as set theory in mathematics and the literature uses that term
to refer to that operation.  What a bad idea it would be for Elisp to
stray from that practice just so your argument can stay afloat.

João