Re: master 78fc49407b8 1/3: Improve filling of ChangeLog entries

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Dmitry.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 17:15:41 +0200, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 31/01/2024 16:01, Po Lu wrote:
> > See any file in CC Mode,

> No shortage of maintainers, you say?

None.

> > or GCC's reload.cc, which features this massive conditional dwarfing
> > any of ours:

> Was there a way to write it more succinctly, using some higher-level 
> constructs? That is the subject.

I think the discussion is over the advantages and disadvantages of
replacing obscure concise code with its equivalent in plain Lisp.

After several days of struggling with named-let, cl-labels, and friends,
I vote for the plain Lisp, even if it does need more lines to express.
It is simply less work.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).