Re: [PATCH] sequence manipulation functions

[Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com>]

Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar.batsov@gmail.com> writes:

> There are relatively few sequence functions from CL in the standard library. The majority of them
> reside in `cl-lib`, which IMO can’t be counted as part of the standard library. After all its own description
> is:
>
> ;; These are extensions to Emacs Lisp that provide a degree of
> ;; Common Lisp compatibility, beyond what is already built-in
> ;; in Emacs Lisp.
>
>
> While I’d prefer it we adopted the names from Scheme and Clojure (e.g. filter vs remove-if-not), I’m fine with leaning more in the CL
> direction as long as this is done by promoting some cl-lib functions to the standard Emacs library. People shouldn’t have to require the entire `cl-lib` just for the same of a handful of sequence functions.
>
> I don’t think it’s normal that pretty much every Emacs package depends on their `cl-lib` or the third party lib `dash.el`.
> Emacs hackers obviously feel that the standard library is lacking and it should be improved somehow (preferably now instead
> of next decade).

I agree. Promoting some sequence-related cl-lib functions would also be
perfectly fine with me. I have no problem with adopting CL names, but I
do feel that the current standard library is lacking.

Cheers,
Nico
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Nicolas Petton
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