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

[Po Lu]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

That's one example out of many, scarcely the "only pillar on which to
lash out at cl-lib."