From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CL functions called at runtime Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:55:39 -0500 Message-ID: <0afw3m52ro.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354564549 22559 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2012 19:55:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 19:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Burton Samograd Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 03 20:56:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tfc7R-000135-0J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:55:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55751 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tfc7F-00036N-Ce for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:55:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44027) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tfc7D-000367-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:55:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tfc7A-0000f2-HJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:55:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42832) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tfc7A-0000et-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tfc79-0003rb-Gk; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:55:39 -0500 X-Spook: red noise MD5 afsatcom FBI SCUD missile Lexis-Nexis Nazi X-Ran: 8tBM=j19+orL.Ar\Fw4vWTHLsrgKJ|5I-Cfq{(6upp+O(q'v\TUbmu>-Vg95c]C|oDwvqh X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Burton Samograd's message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:55:15 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155210 Archived-At: Burton Samograd wrote: > I seemed to have missed the dicussion about the warnings being generated > by the byte compiler about CL functions being called at runtime. Probably because it happened decades ago. > Now I'm seeing them in my code for useful functions like remove-if. They've always been there. > Could someone explain why these warnings are being generated? No point repeating ancient history. Search the archives, read the elisp manual "tips" section; or use cl-lib instead.