Re: Should `position' be implemented in Emacs core and preloaded?

[Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> What i meant is that it would be nice if people could use that kind of
>> useful functions without face resistances.  I saw before
>> in this list people who wanted to use a function from cl-lib or seq.el,
>> and they received objections because that would force that file to
>> require such lib.
>
> Normally such resistance only appears when it would require preloading
> seq or cl-lib (i.e. when it's used by a file which is itself preloaded).
>
> I think preloading seq.el would be OK under the following conditions:
> - seq.el is changed so as not to require cl-lib (that's mostly
>  a question of moving shared code between the two libs so that it's in
>  seq.el instead of in cl-lib, so it shouldn't be too difficult).
> - one of the preloaded files really benefits from seq.el.
I support this idea; seq.el is light and efficient so let's use it more.