Re: seq.el and the complexity of Emacs Lisp.

[Gerd Möllmann]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > ...you are loosing me here. I'm still wondering what seq/map are good
>   > for in the first place. Considering something "cleaner" is just a
>   > feeling, isn't it? A feeling I don't share.
>
> I don't concretely know, as I have not used them myself.  But I think
> that the seq- functions do roughly the same jobs as the cl- sequence
> functions.

This was about seq/map's abstraction over sequence types, using generic
functions, which AFAICT is good for nothing.