Re: Advantage using mapc over dolist

["Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>]

   > on the contrary, it is better to use specific tools and avoid more
   > general tools when possible in order to lower cognitive load.

   Again, that's a personal preference.  If you have to learn the more
   general tool anyway, then having to additionally learn the more specific
   tool may increase rather than lower the cognitive load.

Then why not use COND*?  

Frankly, this is one of the main issues why Alan got fed up.

I suggested adding ecase/case as proper non-CL macros a while back
(resounding silence).  There is no benefit in this code to use a very
complicated macro when a simpler one existed, and has easy semantics.

The usage of these complicated macros make generic and general code
much harder to reason about.  Renaming ecase/case was also one of
those things you did without much discussion, and it has nothing to do
with discouraging CL usage.