From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: "Eric M. Ludlam" <eric@siege-engine.com>,
Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: cl-macs and (require 'cl)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:43:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50907010243p7feb286ej1308da2856747c6b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbxxvss3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull<stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman writes:
>
> > The reason I am asking is that eieio.el
>
> *shiver*
>
> eieio has special needs. You should ask the author(s) why they did it
> this way, rather than using `(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))'. If
> they don't have any particular reason other than "well, it's been like
> that since 1997", then you could try changing it to the recommended
> form.
Yes, that is why I asked here. Eric said he will change it.
But I do not know of any particular reason for including cl.el and
cl-macs.el like they did. Maybe you could explain?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 19:59 cl-macs and (require 'cl) Lennart Borgman
2009-06-30 21:07 ` Davis Herring
2009-06-30 21:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-01 6:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-01 9:43 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-07-01 11:25 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-06-30 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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