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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs |
| Date: | Sat, 02 May 2020 09:03:49 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Renaming 'concat' seems also like spurious inconvenience in the name
> of rigidity -- the Lisp equivalent of bureaucratese.
Funny, I find `concat` a perfect example of a bad name because it
doesn't say what it is that it's concatenating nor how.
If I try to imagine myself a "fresh new Elisp programmer" I can't
intuitively know which of `append` or `concat` does what I want.
Stefan
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