Re: Advantage using mapc over dolist

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Tue 03 Dec 2024 at 19:11, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> And now thanks to pcase there is also cond*.
>> What a mess.
>
> I honestly don't understand why having several more-or-less equivalent
> forms, all accepted and used, so that each user can use whatever he or
> she likes, is "a mess".  In my book, it's "user-friendliness", let
> alone "flexibility".

I would agree if there still were traditional CASE, ECASE etc. so that
there would be

   several more-or-less equivalent forms, all accepted and used, so that
   each user can use whatever he or she likes

But this is exactly the point, that what you suggest is not true but
should be.