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

[Po Lu]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Yes, but all the people who have used it then, whose code are
> now all over Emacs? Don't their view count as well?

Nobody said theirs doesn't, but it is within their power not to write
such code as well.  Thus, it is not reasonable to tax us for attempting
to exact concessions they can easily grant, and will ultimately make
life easier for us.

> cl-lib is included with Emacs. They have used a library that
> is shipped with Emacs because they thought that was the best
> way to solve whatever situation they had. Now those solutions
> are in place, working.
>
> This speaks very strongly in favor of cl-lib.

It does not.