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

[João Távora]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 3:03 PM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> > So take care and learn loop or don't, I don't care.
>
> Then there's no point in continuing, is there?  Because my intent was to
> arrive at a consensus agreeable to me and others who resent the
> pervasiveness of cl-loop, and that of like contrivances in general.
>
> If you're insular enough to never accept anything in that vein, then no
> consensus can be established,

If there's anything "frivolous" and "insular" here, it's this rococo arguing
of style matters, full of unfounded adjectivation, not even comparing to
any actual code or working alternatives. This is Lisp, it has macros.  Like C++
has templates.  I use both when I think there is an advantage.  C programmers
naturally don't like any of those, some of them think the preprocessor is truly
the chef's kiss.  I don't judge them, it's useless.  In the other thread even
the very idea of a sequence processing library was aberrant to you.  What can
I say?  Just that it's not for me to judge, not even worth my time

Again: take care and learn loop, cl-position, seq.el, pcase, or don't.
Though I don't use your code, I think you're doing important contributions
to Emacs, keep it up.  I won't be a jury in the silly code beauty pageant.
Really I won't, and neither should you if you want a piece of advice.

João