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> From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:19:56 +0200
> Cc: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, 
> 	Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>, Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>, 
> 	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> 
> To further illustrate my point, this doesn't lists `assq` or `assoc`, both functions being indispensable when
> using alists.

These are not special to alists, they handle any kind of list.

And getting back to the point: how would namespaces help here?  If you
were after functions that handle alists, would you find a function
called list-assoc?

And what to do with functions that work on many different types of
arguments, like 'length' and 'nth' and 'aref'? in what namespace to
put them?