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

[João Távora]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 8:53 AM Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
>
> Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:
>
> > >> 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?
>
> cl-lib has not really good support for set operations.  I has some
> limited support for performing set operations on lists when interpreting
> these as set specifications.  There is little sense in requiring this
> large suite just for these three functions.

C.f. my benchmarks.  But I agree it would be a good thing to split it up.
into, say cl-list-set.el, I've been working on this code, it's not particularly
difficult.