Re: Question about `cond*'

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Wed 02 Oct 2024 at 11:35pm -04, Richard Stallman wrote:

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>   > I can only assume it was a mistake.  The question is should the feature
>   > be called `cond-star' or `cond*'.
>
> I think `cond*' is a more natural name for the feature.
> That is what users will think of -- to do (require 'cont-star)
> would require a little extra bit of trivial knowledge.
>
> I called the file `cond-star.el' to avoid the inconvenience that
> an asterisk in the file name could cause.  But it woukd be better
> if users did not have to know that file name.
>
> `cond*' really ought to be preloaded.

Given that it isn't used in a single place yet, and we have repeatedly
refused to preload cl-lib, that does not seem appropriate.

-- 
Sean Whitton