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I question the > wisdom of investing our resources in developing such an alternative. It's not either/or. Elisp (and other Lisps) already had a well-developed way to associate objects with other objects in a set: alists. That didn't prevent Elisp (and other Lisps) from later adding hash-table support - an "alternative" in some ways, but certainly not a substitute. There is overlap, but the two are different. As such, each has its advantages. It's not about "reinventing the wheel". It's not either/or. Not at all. But that's a general argument. Whether it's worth adding a separate command `describe-command' is a particular question and judgment.