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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Why aren't `find`, `find-if`, `remove-if` part of Emacs Lisp? |
Date: | Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:22:15 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I don't mind if a very complex and heavyweight function takes keyword > arguments. What bothers me is making simple basic functions such as > "member" use them. Agreed. They also work OK for macros since those are not supposed to be executed at run-time. Keyword arguments are particularly problematic in Elisp where the language implementations are all fairly simplistic with very limited optimizations. Stefan
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