Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:26:39 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >  It's well known that Emacs has already implemented numerous
> > macro/function/command in its current version. But it seems that this
> > is caused by, to a certain degree, the too fine granularity, i.e.,
> > there are many functionally similar macro/function/command are
> > designed separately, for example, `directory-files' and
> > `directory-files-recursively'. The traditional Unix tool, `find', can
> I wouldn't say that these are "very" similar. Sure they both list files,
> but a recursive lister vs. plain lister is a big difference.

The comparison of 'find' with the two Emacs APIs is basically invalid:
'find' is an _application_, whereas the 2 APIs are just that: APIs
that could be used to build such an application.  See find-lisp.el for
what the application would look like.