Re: [External] : Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[João Távora]

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 3:20 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> There's a difference between (1) adding &key to
> Elisp generally and (2) letting more functions
> take advantage of :key and :test, in particular.

Good point.  Very good point.  It's just
that (1) happens to be a very good way to do (2).

But you're 100% right for sure it's not the only
way and (2) is ultimately what I'm after as well.

> (We have :test for `make-hash-table', but I
> think that's about it.)

We have keyword arguments for more functions,
make-process, json-serialize are two that
come to mind, pretty sure there are others.

> It would be nice to be able to provide for
> their use in user-defined functions, without
> any need to load anything from `cl-*'.

So why not introduce a 'definitelynotcl-defun'
macro with support for '&definitelynotkey' that
does that? ;-)

João