Re: Advantage using mapc over dolist

[Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> writes:

> I respect your preference and understand that you as pcase author would
> prefer it everywhere.  But whoever renamed case and ecase did not
> respect other peoples preferences and people are now forced to use that
> pcase monstrosity even in very simple cases.

Come on, nobody is forcing you to anything.  I know it is fashionable to
be pissed nowadays, but let's not exaggerate.  BTW, talking about
respect while calling something others prefer a "monstrosity" doesn't look
like a consistent perspective to me.

Let's compare:

In a fresh emacs -Q

  (featurep 'cl-lib) -> nil

as well as

  (featurep 'pcase) -> nil

`pcase' isn't privileged at all.

So load what you want and use what you want like known from any
modularized language and good it is.  Should Emacs load everything it
can at startup just so that nobody will barf that her/his favorite toy
is of course available without a simple `require' call?

I also never understood why people prefer to have extremely short names
as an optimum, and the hell breaks lose if they have to use three more
letters.

Just stop being annoyed, and everything is good.


Michael.