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

[Po Lu]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> If there's anything "frivolous" and "insular" here, it's this rococo
> arguing of style matters, full of unfounded adjectivation, not even
> comparing to any actual code or working alternatives. This is Lisp, it
> has macros.  Like C++ has templates.  I use both when I think there is
> an advantage.  C programmers naturally don't like any of those, some
> of them think the preprocessor is truly the chef's kiss.  I don't
> judge them, it's useless.  In the other thread even the very idea of a
> sequence processing library was aberrant to you.  What can I say?
> Just that it's not for me to judge, not even worth my time

Of course, that's your choice.  Up until it begins to affect _others_
who must read the code produced by such a choice, at which point their
views become the last word.

So use cl-lib if you want.  Just keep it out of Emacs.