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> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:58:11 +0100
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > No, it's not only of historical interest, because we can add
> > functions.
> 
> That's true, and I agree for those we should find some clearer critera
> than "best judgment" or philosophical vague principles like
> "simplicity."
> [...]
> For example, I'd vote for adding timespec and bignum conversion
> functions based on (2).

I agree with the last proposal.

But I also think that we need a lot more convenience wrappers even for
existing functionalities.  Any non-trivial module whose code I ever
saw is a clear evidence to that, as they all introduce their own
wrappers for practically the same purposes.