GNU bug report logs - #76476
Make cl-first, cl-second, ..., cl-tenth part of Emacs Lisp

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Message #25 received at 76476-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: rms <at> gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: acorallo <at> gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org, 76476-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76476: Make cl-first, cl-second, ...,
 cl-tenth part of Emacs Lisp
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:33:41 +0000

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

>   > >     first
>   > >     second
>   > >     third
>   > >     fourth
>   > >     fifth
>   > >     sixth
>   > >     seventh
>   > >     eight
>   > >     ninth
>   > >     tenth
>   > >     rest
>
>   > FWIW, I hate those even more than the `cadar` thingies.  🙂
>
> I agree -- most of these are no improvement.  They don't make programs
> simpler.
>
> We no longer have a need to strain to keep the number of function
> names in GNU Emacs as small as possible.  But that doesn't mean
> we should add every function that could be meaningful.
> Some meaningful functions are not worth the work of documenting them.

Thanks.  It appears that this change isn't gaining much support.

I'm therefore closing this bug report now.

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