Re: Advantage using mapc over dolist

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:33:20 +0100
> 
> 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.

If your only gripe is about the names of cl-case and cl-ecase, then
why mention pcase and cond*? they were not renamed and didn't come
from CL.  And why is it "a mess"?  You've made abundantly clear that
you didn't like the cl- names, why is there a need to add unrelated
accusations?