Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > I suggest we rewrite those cl-loop calls
  > > into ordinary Lisp, avoiding use of cl-loop.

  > That would be something along the lines of:

  > (let ((comp-ctxt (make-comp-cstr-ctxt))
  >       (h (make-hash-table :test #'eq))
  >       f)
  >   (while (setq f (pop comp-known-type-specifiers))
  >     (puthash f (comp-type-spec-to-cstr type-spec) h))
  >   h)

That is simpler than the cl-loop construct that you rewrote.
Though it will alter the ambient valu eof comp-type-spec-to-cstr,
which might be undesirable.

To avoid that, we could use

   (dolist (f comp-known-type-specifiers)
     (puthash f (comp-type-spec-to-cstr type-spec) h))

and avoid binding f in the let.  That would be one line less.


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