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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preloading seq.el
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:50:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef14jful.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837e6wb0l3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:47:04 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I'm all for preloading both seq.el and cl-lib.el.  I think it's annoying
>> that we're not allowed to use these very useful libraries in the most
>> central bits of Emacs, but instead have to write less optimal and
>> readable code in those files.
>
> Preloading is a far cry from being allowed to use the packages.  I
> don't understand why you consider not preloading a package as if that
> denies your ability to use it.

I was talking about using seq/cl-lib in the parts of Emacs that's dumped
(like help.el), which is currently not allowed, because that would
require preloading seq/cl-lib.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-29 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-29 12:21 Preloading seq.el Stefan Kangas
2019-08-29 12:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-29 12:47   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29 12:50     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-08-29 14:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29 15:15         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-29 15:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29 15:35             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-29 18:41               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29 18:43                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-29 21:44                   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-29 15:20   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-29 12:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-31 12:33 ` Zhu Zihao
2019-08-31 12:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-06  0:49     ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-06  7:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-06  7:46         ` Robert Pluim
2019-09-06  8:23           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-06 11:27         ` Juanma Barranquero

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