Re: Question about `cond*'

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >   > I can only assume it was a mistake.  The question is should the feature
   >   > be called `cond-star' or `cond*'.
   >
   > I think `cond*' is a more natural name for the feature.
   > That is what users will think of -- to do (require 'cont-star)
   > would require a little extra bit of trivial knowledge.
   >
   > I called the file `cond-star.el' to avoid the inconvenience that
   > an asterisk in the file name could cause.  But it woukd be better
   > if users did not have to know that file name.
   >
   > `cond*' really ought to be preloaded.

   Given that it isn't used in a single place yet, and we have repeatedly
   refused to preload cl-lib, that does not seem appropriate.

cl-lib isn't preloaded for other reasons (Emacs Lisp isn't Common
Lisp), cond* is part of the Emacs Lisp language, and that would be a
good reason to preloaded it so that it can be more widley used.