Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > Why do you need to reimplement nthcdr, badly?

   Because people say (if (= (length foo) 0)) all over the place, without
   caring whether foo is a list, a string, or whatever, and I want them to
   be able to say (if (length= foo 0)) with the same confidence and
   convenience.

If the goal is to avoid writing bad code, then one should definitly
not be introducing something like length= as a means to evade it,
since both those forms are to be avoided.