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Re: [External] : Re: Shrinking the C core
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: [External] : Re: Shrinking the C core |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:21:59 +0200 |
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Richard Stallman wrote:
>> But the way it is used today, as we just heard in 28% of
>> vanilla Emacs files, isn't because of CL emulation or
>> compatibility purposes, but because it adds useful features
>> and covers aspects that non-cl-lib Elisp leaves blank.
>
> I consider this a problem. Such frequent use of the cl
> facilities -- even though it is just the macros -- adds
> those cl macros to what people need to know to understand
> those files.
Okay, I understand. I must admit I don't really care about
other people at such a fine grained level, but let's think
then ...
I think that non-programmers are a lost cause in this case
anyway and for programmers the complexity increase from
non-cl-lib Elisp to cl-lib is pretty much negligible?
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