@cks There is a long history of lisp dialects; elisp is a fairly early
(and…
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lispwizard · 2023-09-29 13:30

@cks There is a long history of lisp dialects; elisp is a fairly early
(and fairly simple, considering it was primarily intended for
implementing / extending an editor variant). Common Lisp was an
attempt consolidate features available in multiple dialects but with
slightly differing syntax or semantics. The 'cl package makes it
possible to write (carefully) files which will run both in emacs and
any common lisp implementation. I do this a lot, which is why I invoke
it as 'loop instead of 'cl-loop. I also frequently find myself writing
a loop-based implementation of some builtin function (even if it is
somewhat more verbose) because 1) understanding the resulting code
doesn't require being completely familiar with the builtin function
and 2) mixing in application-specific (i.e. non-general) functionality
is extremely easy (and obvious).