Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 17:32, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
>    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,

The goal is to avoid writing bad code and also to easily fix existing
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.

Why?