Re: dolist considered harmful

[Jay Kamat]

Stefan Monnier writes:

> Since it can only be used when we're 100% sure that LIST is a LIST,
> (and who can be sure of such a thing in a dynamic language like Emacs
> Lisp), I think we'd be better off deprecating it and changing all uses
> of dolist with a clear while+cdr loop that everyone can understand.

I haven't been following the other discussion, but I think deprecating dolist
is a little extreme. I use dolist a lot because it makes a lot of things I
write a lot simpler (over using the loop macro or mapcar).

I suspect a lot of existing code out there uses dolist, a github search
suggests about 500k uses (although many of those are probably copies).