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

[Richard Stallman]

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  >    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.

  > I know Emacs has many obscure corners.  But I didn't think that any were
  > beyond the reach of the maintainers.  ;-}

I have the impression that that is meant as a clever riposte to the
words you qupted, but I don't understand the point.  The words you qupted
are not clever wit.  They are meant to be serious and straightforward.

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