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


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 07:35:26 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Po Lu wrote:

>> 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.

It does and any anti cl-lib policy will just alienate people
using it for now reason.

Telling people it is better to hand-roll with basic Elisp than
to use libraries is bad technology and a very unwise
alienating move for no reason.

Especially since there is nothing to do about it, the
situation is the way it is. So even less reason.

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