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Re: Why aren't `find`, `find-if`, `remove-if` part of Emacs Lisp?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Why aren't `find`, `find-if`, `remove-if` part of Emacs Lisp?
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:22:15 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

> I don't mind if a very complex and heavyweight function takes keyword
> arguments.  What bothers me is making simple basic functions such as
> "member" use them.

Agreed.  They also work OK for macros since those are not supposed to be
executed at run-time.  Keyword arguments are particularly problematic in
Elisp where the language implementations are all fairly simplistic with
very limited optimizations.


        Stefan




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