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

[Po Lu]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> Every macro is a compiler: it translates arbitrary forms to Lisp 
> forms.

That's quibbling.  The transformations carried out by cl-loop are by a
long shot more consequential to the structure of their input than those
by most any other macro there is, which is a demerit and, I think, is
what Thomas meant to communicate.