bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project?

[martin rudalics]

> ..., I've always
> wondered what the hell was the person adding another function of the
> same name thinking. To have a library that clobbers existing definitions
> is a no no even outside Emacs, let alone in the core.
>
> Is the explanation (I'm not familiar with the history) that at the time
> cl.el was added there was no dolist in core Emacs, so there was no
> perceived need to call it dolist* as in other similar cases (mapcar*,
> defun* etc)? (In that case my sincere disdain would go for the person
> who introduced dolist into subr.el later without addressing the naming
> clash.)
>
> Same with `dotimes'.

Strongly seconded.  For my opinion on this see

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01582.html

martin