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Re: Aliasing EQ to EQL


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Aliasing EQ to EQL
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:14:23 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> For what?  This aliasing has _zero_ real world benefit.

The benefit (cleaner, simpler language) is marginal, indeed.

> I maintain that this is a change we should absolutely not make.

I have no intention to push this change.
But I think eventually we will make a change along those lines.

For that reason, when I see an argument between `eq` vs `equal`, I tend
to translate it into `eql` vs `equal`.


        Stefan




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