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

[João Távora]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 3:24 PM Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
>
> João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >>  I'm a bit lost I must admit.  I don't understand the use of your
> >>  `sequence-p' test (all we use seq.el for are sequences...?).
> >
> > Yes, but custom sequences don't respond t to sequencep.
>
> Ok, I got confused by the hyphen you had added to the predicate name.

Yeah, my bad, sorry.

> If adding new methods slows down the generic functions significantly
> this is something to be investigated.  Maybe there is a problem, AFAIR
> parts of cl-generic are relatively new.

I think cl-generic is already pretty awesomely optimized.  But maybe
who knows?