Re: dash.el [was: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs]

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > This is just a matter of following the good practises that already
   > exist in Emacs.  It would be a bad idea to start making a mess, and
   > then encouraging this mess to become larger.

   Posited on s.el being a mess, which neither it, nor dash.el is. They are
   both nice APIs that are nice to use.

In isolation these libraries do not create a mess, and it was never
claimed that they are so.  The issue is making them part of
Emacs/ELPA, thus encouraging people to start using non-standard Emacs
Lisp conventions in Emacs.  _That_ would be the mess.

I really urge people to carefully read what people have written to
minimize these type of misunderstandings.

   I did manage to drop a dash.el dependency form one of my libraries and
   replace it with seq.el. That worked because it was close to a drop
   in. But people have already chosen to work with dash, or s, or f, even
   though it means adding a dependency because they are nice.

Would you like to suggest which parts of those libraries are nice in
your opinon so that they could maybe be added to Emacs, following
normal Emacs conventions?