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Fwd: Re: dotimes var comiler warning

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de, 25017-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25017: Fwd: Re: dotimes var comiler warning
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:54:13 -0800 (PST)

> > The (implicit) decision to diverge further from Common Lisp has
> > been made a while ago, by prefixing the CL functions with `cl' and
> > importing the `seq' and `map' libraries, which provide similar
> > functionality, but with a different interface.
> 
> Maybe (though, I don't think there was such decision, implicit or
> not - "seq" and "map" functions also have an according prefix - I
> wouldn't say we are converging are diverging to/from Common Lisp
> at all, but give developers a stylistic choice).  But here were
> are talking about a construct that exists in pure Elisp, and OTOH
> also in Common Lisp, sharing the same name.  If there is not
> really a need to make the semantics differ, I prefer to leave
> things as they are, because everything else would probably be
> more confusing than helpful.

+1.  Well put.

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