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From: kendall%saber@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU
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Subject: Redundant function in cl.el
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Date: 1 May 89 16:34:52 GMT
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`member' in cl.el is essentially the same function as the builtin
`memq'.  Why not just fset the former to the latter?  It's much faster.

Differences: (1) memq on a dotted list may crash your Emacs, while
member accepts dotted lists.  Maybe fix memq not to have this problem.
(2) member uses eql, while memq uses eq.  But these are the same
function.

--Sam Kendall