From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 22291@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22291: 25.1.50; REGRESSION: Emacs 24.3 breaks loading cl-macs to get macro `case'
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 09:28:02 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7059fd9d-4ec3-4910-9aa2-f8c07ba9fe01@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83a8oocr7i.fsf@gnu.org>>
> IOW, this was a deliberate change, and you should either use 'cl-case'
> with Emacs versions since 24.3, or use 'cl' instead of 'cl-macs'.
I know all of that. Just because something was decided does not mean
that that decision was the best decision possible, or even wise.
This is a gratuitous change that breaks backward compatibility. That's
the point. Gratuitous - unnecessary.
Personally I tend to require `cl', and at compile-time only, to get
such macros. But it is entirely reasonable that someone might require
`cl-macs' - at runtime or compile time - to get such a macro definition.
And if some user does not compile the code that requires the library
that provides the macro, then s?he will now get the entire `cl' at
runtime, instead of getting only the much-smaller `cl-macs' at runtime.
> OK?
Not IMHO.
next parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-02 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<61b4ebe0-446c-49df-b5d1-c527a47192b5@default>
[not found] ` <<83a8oocr7i.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 17:28 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-01-02 17:44 ` bug#22291: 25.1.50; REGRESSION: Emacs 24.3 breaks loading cl-macs to get macro `case' Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 21:31 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-02 3:23 Drew Adams
2016-01-02 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-02 17:50 ` bug#22291: 25.1.50; NOTABUG: " Glenn Morris
2016-01-02 18:16 ` Drew Adams
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