Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > If (> (length foo) 10) is bad or not depends entierly on its context.

   (> (length foo) 10)

   uselessly counts (max 0 (- (length foo) 10)) items (+/- off by one
   error?)

There are more things in life than lists ...  length on a char-table
or a string is constant.

What is trying to be optimized here is not (PREDICATE (length ...))
but rather the implicit list-length, i.e. (PREDICATE (list-length
...)).

   The bad code _is already_ in Emacs.

Then that code should be fixed, it will be needed to be fixed anyway
-- a new function won't fix it magically.