Locating file via load-path

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2024 at 9:07 AM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Arash Esbati" <arash@gnu.org>, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Locating file via load-path
>
> > > Why not nconc?
> >
> > The use case I have to deal with runs inside hooks which run more than
> > once, and I don't want to pollute the target variable with same entry
> > over and over again.
> >
> > Of course I can check if the entry is already there, but I think it
> > would be convenient if `cl-pushnew' could be a full replacement for
> > `add-to-list' and one would use only the former in Lisp and be done with
> > it.
>
> It would be OK for Emacs to have such a function,
> but it shouldn't be called `cl-pushnew'.
>
> That name should be reserved for our emulation of
> the Common Lisp function `pushnew'.  `cl-pushnew'
> shouldn't do anything different from what CL's
> `pushnew' does.
>
> Just one opinion.

A agree with it.  A good set that are always recommended
would be a great improvement and no guesswork would be
required on which ones are to be used. There could also
be some special ones if properly named.