Re: master 78fc49407b8 1/3: Improve filling of ChangeLog entries

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 31/01/2024 17:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Dmitry.
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 17:15:41 +0200, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> > On 31/01/2024 16:01, Po Lu wrote:
> > > See any file in CC Mode,
>
> > No shortage of maintainers, you say?
>
> None.

One cannot name a package with bus factor of 1 and say it has plenty of 
people willing to maintain it. I don't mean to criticize your work (not 
knowing the exact tradeoffs), but it's plainly a bad example.

> > > or GCC's reload.cc, which features this massive conditional dwarfing
> > > any of ours:
>
> > Was there a way to write it more succinctly, using some higher-level
> > constructs? That is the subject.
>
> I think the discussion is over the advantages and disadvantages of
> replacing obscure concise code with its equivalent in plain Lisp.

Again: Po showed some tapestry of dense code which was supposedly okay. 
What was it supposed to demonstrate? What alternative to compare with?

> After several days of struggling with named-let, cl-labels, and friends,
> I vote for the plain Lisp, even if it does need more lines to express.
> It is simply less work.

I've never used named-let, and very rarely cl-labels.

The latter is a very simple idea, though: create a bunch of local 
function definitions. Like nested functions in Python, for example.