Re: Preloading seq.el

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:12:54 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
    >> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 02:49:24 +0200
    >> Cc: Zhu Zihao <all_but_last@163.com>, stefan@marxist.se, 
    >> Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
    >> 
    >> A better metrics (but hard to estimate) is how many times a function of cl-lib has been reimplemented (likely in
    >> a much simpler way), or how many workarounds are in place because someone wanted to use a cl-lib
    >> function in the pre-loaded code, but couldn't, and didn't have the energy to try to convince emacs-devel to
    >> preload cl-lib ;-)

    Eli> Only those of the cases where autoloading wouldn't have solved the
    Eli> issue.

    >> I mean, cl-lib is infrastructure code. It's useful and
    >> expressive. If it were preloaded, people would find uses for it.

    Eli> They can use it now by autoloading cl-lib functions they need.

Hmm, if cl-lib is that useful, could we not make people's lives easier
by just slapping autoload cookies on all of it?

Robert