Sandbox subr-x? (was: `thunk-let'?)

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I questioned only the purpose of having a library, apparently
> `subr.el',

(I think you mean subr-x.)

> whose _purpose_ is to act as a sort of sandbox of stuff that, for
> whatever reason, someone doesn't consider quite ready for primetime.

I don't have a strong opinion about it.  But I think the approach works:
interested people use this stuff - privately, but also in Emacs - and
the stuff develops.  Stuff that proved useful can later be moved to
other places.  OTOH, if you think about things that happened there (like
`when-let' and `if-let' having been obsoleted and replaced by `if-let*',
`when-let*' and `and-let*', not long after that had been added), it is
not too bad that not every Emacs user and package developer had already
used it.

But maybe subr-x is also a symptom of limited manpower: if we had hordes
of people volunteering writing and updating documentation, we would
probably be less reluctant to fully integrate and document this stuff in
the first place.


Michael.