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Re: moving more cl seq/mapping support into core


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: moving more cl seq/mapping support into core
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:32:55 +0900

Leo <address@hidden> writes:
>> Aside from that, the keyword-based interfaces of these functions does
>> not fit the style of Emacs Lisp very well.
>
> But all the major build blocks like define-derived-mode, defcustom,
> define-minor-mode, easy-menu-define etc use keyword arguments.

Emacs sometimes uses keywords for complex top-level
nobody-expects-them-to-be-fast functions/macros.  CL uses keywords for
just about every function in the language.  There's a distinct
difference in style, and that should be respected.

-Miles

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