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

[tomas]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 09:23:26AM +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
> 
> > Just to take this example, there are about 2 major bugs: 1) the list
> > will come out reversed, 2) the code does XOR rather than subtraction.
> 
> Hmm, reading its doc string, I think a more illustrative name for
> cl-set-difference would be cl-set-complement.  In this case, the second
> loop can be removed.

Yes, "difference" is, surprisingly, ambiguous. Your implementation is
usually called "symmetric difference" to avoid that.

Cheers
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t

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