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

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

>>> BTW, a "set.el" library is on our wishlist, complementing
>>> seq.el and map.el.
>>
>> Good idea - but are you allowed to use cl-lib from it?
>
> That would not make much sense.

Why not? Because then cl-lib would have to be loaded and we
are not allowed to do that?

But even so, tell me then, how will additional functions
dealing with sets, supposedly added to set.el, how would they
not contribute to the increased complexity of Emacs Lisp the
same way cl-lib has?

A computer program is a bunch of files, this whole strategy is
putting a limit how good an individual file can be, because
that increases the overall complexity over a large amount of
such files, that a few maintainers have taken on to maintain.

That is a problem on the human side. And not all humans side,
even, as all the people who have used cl-lib in their source
and in their source for Emacs are, of course, humans as well.
So there are two different human perspectives.

On the technology side alone, if a file can be improved by
using a library, how is that not the right thing?

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