Re: [External] : Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

João Távora wrote:

> So why not introduce a 'definitelynotcl-defun' macro with
> support for '&definitelynotkey' that does that? ;-)

We don't want do stop anyone from introducing new stuff.
If they manage to get it into Emacs, it can't be that bad.
If they also get other people to use it, it must be
even better.

For the people who are maintaining it, I think to some extent
it would come with the job to handle code that isn't
necessarily written as the maintainer would like it to be.
Since it is originally written by another person, as
I understand the case to be in terms of this discussion.
A person more friendly to cl-lib?

But nothing prevents the maintainer from not using cl-lib
him/herself. And, to what extent can code that relies heavily
on cl-lib be left alone by the maintainer? As long as it
works? Do we have bugs that typically require big re-writes of
existing code?

If so, I agree the maintainer's job isn't easy.

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