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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:23:18 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > We use keyword arguments when there are many of them, or
> > when a few of them are obscure and rarely used. From where
> > I stand, the dispute is not about banishing then -- that
> > will not happen -- the dispute is about how _much_ to
> > use them.
> 
> But doesn't that mean there has to be rules for every
> individual library? And what kind of rule, for example for
> cl-lib? "You are allowed to use it - but not too much"?
> How are you going to formulate and enforce such rules?

It's a judgment call, to be made when reviewing patches.  Like many
other similar issues.  Not everything could or should be codified.