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Re: dolist considered harmful
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Noam Postavsky |
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Re: dolist considered harmful |
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Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:44:54 -0400 |
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 18:10, Garreau, Alexandre <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 2018-10-30 at 14:39, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > All this pcase-dolist discussion made me take a second look at dolist
> > and now I wondering whether we should keep it:
>
> This is still extreme: I never saw anyone suggesting to remove anything
> about pcase or its derivative… but I can get quite distracted sometimes
> so maybe I missed it.
Not pcase, but Alan talked about removing pcase-dolist and other derivatives:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-10/msg00664.html
If we can't get quality doc strings for pcase-dolist and friends, I say
we should remove them from Emacs. There are only around 30 occurrences
of pcase-dolist.
> (btw is emacs tail-recursive?),
Nope. Which is why recursion is not idiomatic.
> I used `dolist', I first wanted to use recursion before someone noticed
> me it was unnatural / strang / unidiomatic in elisp to do that,