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

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> Without having a specific enemy to blame, when the function is long,
> people just either admit out loud they find the code difficult or
> silently avoid changing it.

The length of the function plays a far lesser role in one's perception
of a function's complexity than the quantity (or scarcity) of commentary
and the number of unfamiliar constructs it employs do.