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

[Richard Stallman]

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  >    Why not instead provide them with docstrings, I think everyone
  >    can agree they should have them?

  > As a long-time CL/EL hacker, I will also undertake to document cl-lib
  > functions.  I think that is a much easier, and safer, alternative to
  > trying to recode cl-* usage.

Those functions certainly should have doc strings, and adding some is
a good thing to do.  But that will not cure the larger problem
caused by too much usage of those functions.  They were meant to be used
in a few obsure corners, not used so often that maintainers need to know
about them.


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