Re: Advantage using mapc over dolist

[Jean Louis]

* Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> [2024-12-03 23:04]:
> On Tue 03 Dec 2024 at 22:24, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> >> > I am an Emacs Lisp programmer, and all Common Lisp functions
> >> > prefixed with `cl-` I find liberating in the sense that personally
> >> > within Emacs Lisp I do not like mixing it because it is not Common Lisp.
> 
> Maybe the issue is that too many things were degraded into cl-*.
> And now very complex bad ideas are pushed as replacement fix.
> 
> >> > But within Emacs, I like using Emacs Lisp pure
> 
> Not sure what does "Emacs Lisp pure" mean.
> Does it mean "Whatever comes with Emacs except cl-* stuff."?
> 
> "Emacs Lisp pure" had CASE and ECASE in 1993 (conversion to RCS
> according to git) until 2012 iirc.

I prefer to use `cond' and avoid `if', and that `cl-*' stuff, I only
use in Common Lisp programs. Definition of pure Emacs Lisp is not
there, it was vague, not long lasting, and only withing the context
that was not supposed to be over commented. It disappeared already.

> > But Tomas, I mentioned nothing about pcase. I said cl- namespace being
> > separate feels liberating to me as my personal choice. If you wish to
> > use those commands without cl-prefix, there is solution that Stefan
> > wrote in recent email.
> 
> Bad workarounds do not fill me with joy.

His solution was just to load the library. How is it bad workaround?
But okay, if it is bad, sorry.

-- 
Jean Louis