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Re: Preloading seq.el
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: Preloading seq.el |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:46:28 +0200 |
>>>>> On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:12:54 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> said:
>> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 02:49:24 +0200
>> Cc: Zhu Zihao <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>> Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>>
>> A better metrics (but hard to estimate) is how many times a function of
cl-lib has been reimplemented (likely in
>> a much simpler way), or how many workarounds are in place because
someone wanted to use a cl-lib
>> function in the pre-loaded code, but couldn't, and didn't have the
energy to try to convince emacs-devel to
>> preload cl-lib ;-)
Eli> Only those of the cases where autoloading wouldn't have solved the
Eli> issue.
>> I mean, cl-lib is infrastructure code. It's useful and
>> expressive. If it were preloaded, people would find uses for it.
Eli> They can use it now by autoloading cl-lib functions they need.
Hmm, if cl-lib is that useful, could we not make people's lives easier
by just slapping autoload cookies on all of it?
Robert