From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b0042b7: Make CC Mode load cl-lib rather than cl in Emacs 26.
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:31:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170626163150.GA2471@acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1sq7bvho.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org>
Hello, Stefan.
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 17:44:04 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Hi Alan.
> > Make CC Mode load cl-lib rather than cl in Emacs 26.
> Great. Could you tell us why you go through all that trouble instead of
> just always using cl-lib (which has been tested to work in Emacsen as
> old as Emacs-21 and XEmacs-21.4)?
cl-lib doesn't exist in those older Emacsen, neither does it exist in
XEmacs. So doing what you suggest isn't a sensible thing to do.
> That would make you free to use any cl-lib functions and macros
> without having to add matching c--* macros.
The macros are necessitated by, amongst other things, name changes in
functions, some of which have had traditionally approved names for
decades. (I have a copy of the Lisp Machine Manual from the 1980s to
back this up.)
> Stefan
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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2017-06-25 21:44 ` [Emacs-diffs] master b0042b7: Make CC Mode load cl-lib rather than cl in Emacs 26 Stefan Monnier
2017-06-26 16:31 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2017-06-26 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-26 18:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-26 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-26 20:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-26 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-26 21:07 ` Richard Stallman
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