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Subject: Re: Rewriting make-docfile.c in Lisp?
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> From: sbaugh@catern.com
> Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 11:56:03 -0400
> 
> I was recently trawling through make-docfile.c and wondered:
> 
> Couldn't this be written in Lisp?

make-docfile does several jobs; did you mean to convert them all to
Lisp?  One of them is globals.h, which is needed for compiling the
Emacs C sources.