Re: un-deprecating CL

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     > It is added complexity that we don't need.  To add them to standard
>     > Emacs Lisp functions would call for documenting them with great
>     > importance. 
> 
>     But defcustom, make-hash-table, define-derived-mode,
>     make-network-process, etc all use keyword arguments as far as I can
>     tell. 
> 
> That's not cogent.  The fact that one part of the system is complex is
> no reason to make another part unnecessarily complex.
> 
> If you want to understand my decision, the crucial point is that I consider
> the complexity of these functions a negative.

If the keyword argument handling is broken out and generalized will it 
still add much complexity? (This could be combined with making a 
recommendation not to use that functionality normally.)