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28.2; Unable to Edebug cl-flet form which uses argument destructuring

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Message #94 received at 65344 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>,
 "brandon.irizarry <at> gmail.com" <brandon.irizarry <at> gmail.com>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, "65344 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <65344 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : bug#65344: 28.2; Unable to Edebug cl-flet form
 which uses argument destructuring
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 08:06:39 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>> The root of this is the old discussion of how strictly cl-lib should
>> follow the Common Lisp originals.  We will not pacify this discussion.
>> I think we found a good compromise in most cases, even when it is not
>> the optimum for everyone.
>
> FWIW.
>
> Dunno which part(s) of the people I fall in, but my
> opinion is that we should have separated, and we
> still should try to separate (1) actual Common Lisp 
> emulation/reproduction/whatever-you-want-to-call-it,
> which should be quite faithful to the standard, from
> (2) non-CL constructs (functions, variables, macros,
> special forms) that might seem a bit CL-like or that
> might share some of the underlying implementation
> with some of #1.

Agree 100&, but that ship seems to have saild.

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