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* bug#20056: 25.0.50; Remove non Common Lisp stuff from cl*.el libraries
@ 2015-03-08 18:02 Drew Adams
  2015-03-08 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2015-03-08 18:21 ` Daniel Colascione
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2015-03-08 18:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 20056

In our `cl*.el' libraries we have some user-facing `cl-*' macros etc.
that do not correspond to anything in Common Lisp.  This seems
misguided.

We see this in node (cl) `Modify Macros', for example:

 "The following macros were invented for this package; they have no
  analogues in Common Lisp."

Why add them to a package that is for Common Lisp functionality (it is
"The GNU Emacs Common Lisp emulation package") if they are not part of
Common Lisp?

This is quite misleading, and it has led some people to think that
`letf' etc. are in fact part of Common Lisp.  Please consider renaming
these without the `cl-' prefix and moving them to a different library,
whose name does not start with `cl'.

In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-02-27 on LEG570
Bzr revision: b2a590d4e3dc692a97c1b53e015b945d84b4b4c7
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs'





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2015-03-08 18:02 bug#20056: 25.0.50; Remove non Common Lisp stuff from cl*.el libraries Drew Adams
2015-03-08 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-08 19:06   ` Dani Moncayo
2015-03-08 20:10     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 20:08     ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-29 20:57       ` Drew Adams
2015-03-08 18:21 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-03-08 18:46   ` Drew Adams
2015-03-08 19:11     ` Daniel Colascione
2015-03-08 21:12       ` Drew Adams
2015-03-08 21:19         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-03-08 21:31           ` Drew Adams
2015-03-09  4:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-02 12:50             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-03  2:49               ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-03  7:49                 ` Štěpán Němec
2019-08-03 10:30                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-03 12:58                     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-03 13:16                       ` Štěpán Němec
2019-08-03 21:10                 ` Stefan Monnier

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