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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Btw, the above is a very simple use of cl-loop.  We have quite a few
  > of much more complex ones.  For example:

  >   (cl-loop
  >    with comp-ctxt = (make-comp-cstr-ctxt)
  >    with h = (make-hash-table :test #'eq)
  >    for (f type-spec) in comp-known-type-specifiers
  >    for cstr = (comp-type-spec-to-cstr type-spec)
  >    do (puthash f cstr h)
  >    finally return h)

Boy that is hard to understand.  I suggest we rewrite those cl-loop calls
into ordinary Lisp, avoiding use of cl-loop.

I looked at the manual for the iter construct ("iterate").  The added
parentheses make it fit better into Lisp.

However, I have to ask how the complexity of the usage of iter.
Does iter offer a corresponding construct for each cl-loop construct?

Are the iter constructs in 1-1 correspondence with cl-loop constructs?
If so, replacing c-loop with iter might not reduce the complexity that
either one adds to Emacs Lisp.

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