Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03.05.2020 00:05, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > BTW, speaking solely of concat, the return value is always a string.
>
> And there's a good to make that in 99% of the cases, the arguments are
> strings as well.  Its main use is to concatenate strings.

Yup.

> > So a 'string-' prefix can make sense from that perspective anyway.
>
> Agreed.  But I'm not sure it's a strong enough case to justify
> renaming it.  At least not in the current context.  Maybe some years in
> the future when most of the other string manipulation functions have
> been brought into the `string-` prefix and people got used to expect all
> string manipulations to appear there, the case for renaming `concat`
> will be stronger.

Note I didn't say 'rename', but only to create an alias. And 'some years 
in the future' we could delete the original (though more likely 1-2 
decades in the future). I'm not saying we have to do this, but I do 
think it makes sense.