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> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
>  Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 18:03:59 +0300
> 
> just having a string-concat alias could improve the situation.

But concat is not only about strings.  Will we have 3 different
aliases?  And what ab out the case where each argument is of a
different type?

More generally, there's a similar problem with APIs that can accept
arguments of different types.