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Re: Instead of pcase


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Instead of pcase
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 04:29:31 +0100
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Richard Stallman wrote:

>> In Lisps, most of the complexity simply moved to standard
>> library (and/or other libraries as well).
>
> This seems to presume a principle of "conservation of
> complexity", but that is not so. Complexity doesn't simply
> "move".

I think what he means is, without libraries the complexity is
repeated in every file and in different ways with different
solutions often for the same situation.

With a library - the complexity is in one place alone, and all
the files using it conforms to the same interface.

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