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Re: cl-lib warnings


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: cl-lib warnings
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:30:07 +0200

> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:24:02 -0800
> Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
>  joaotavora@gmail.com,
>  juri@linkov.net,
>  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > I'm afraid if we preload cl-lib, that would open the gates of hell
> > whereby all of our code will be rewritten in cl-lib dialect that is
> > (at least for me) much harder to read and maintain.  So maybe wait
> > until I'm safely dead (at least as far as Emacs is concerned) before
> > doing that.
> > 
> 
> Wait, what constitutes of cl-lib dialect? Do you mean things like cl-defun? I 
> hope using cl-loop and cl-reduce, cl-remove-if and the like doesn’t make code 
> harder to read.

Yes, cl-loop is one of the worst offenders in my eyes.  If I want to
use Fortran or C, I will use Fortran or C; I don't want to see Fortran
for-loops in Emacs Lisp.



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