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Re: dolist considered harmful
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
Re: dolist considered harmful |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:29:55 -0400 |
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 19:24, Jay Kamat <address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
>
> > Since it can only be used when we're 100% sure that LIST is a LIST,
> > (and who can be sure of such a thing in a dynamic language like Emacs
> > Lisp), I think we'd be better off deprecating it and changing all uses
> > of dolist with a clear while+cdr loop that everyone can understand.
>
> I haven't been following the other discussion, but I think deprecating dolist
> is a little extreme.
I think Stefan just forgot to add sarcasm tags to his message.