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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com,  michael_heerdegen@web.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 19:07:59 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It isn't like we as a project never made any mistakes, but there's no
> > reason to assume this decision is one of them until we have ample
> > evidence.
> 
> Seq is 10 years in Emacs

It is preloaded only since a little more than a year ago.

> its polymorphism is unused in the tree.

Searching for seq-* in the tree brings more than 590 hits in more than
170 Lisp files.

> Joao showed that it's slow.

No, he didn't.

> Dmitry mentioned that it is not a full replacement for what is in
> cl-lib.

Indeed, it is not a full replacement, and was never meant to be.  I
believe its name says that much.

> Po Lu mentioned the poor doc strings.

That can be said about a lot of functions in Emacs, unfortunately.
Including cl-lib, btw.  Which doesn't preclude us from using any of
those poorly-documented functions.