Re: lengths and other stuff

[Daniel Brooks]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net> writes:
>
>> Incidentally, I find it hard to believe that someone typed all of that
>> out without at least using cadar and cddar.
>
> It's very old code...  didn't `cadar' and friends get added kinda late?
> (I.e., 90s?)  I vaguely seem to remember them living in cl.el for a
> while until people were convinced to hoist them to Emacs proper.

A quick check does show that they were moved to subr.el from cl-lib.el
just three years ago. Nearly four now. Also that they were called
cl-cadar and so on. Weird.

db48x