Re: seq.el and the complexity of Emacs Lisp.

[Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>]

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Am 06.11.23 um 22:30 schrieb Emanuel Berg:
> Björn Bidar wrote:
> 
>>>> Saying lets just drop these in a sec to all package
>>>> authors seems overreaching.
>>>
>>> Richard's question was about use of cl-lib in the Emacs
>>> tree, it will not (and cannot) affect third-party packages.
>>
>> He also mentioned about ELPA. Even if it's just the Emacs
>> tree it does seem overreaching unless there's
>> a direct benefit.
> 
> On the whole, changing code that works, for that to make sense
> one must have a distinct improvement in mind, that is almost
> beyond discussion, otherwise it isn't worth the effort to do
> it, with everything negative and unexpected that can follow -
> in my experience.

That seems to be a common but unfortunate practice nowadays, that you should 
not touch code that is working, especially rooted in corporate environments. 
Every improvement to the code will make it easier to maintain in the long 
term, fighting bit-rot and inconsistencies. If you touch it and it fails, you 
simply fix it, there is nothing preventing you from making changes to the code 
again.

Harald

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