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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VC-SVN problem
Date: 09 May 2004 21:01:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5ad0hxw5g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BMtL0-0001xj-II@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     So, I'd like to fix this in vc-svn.el, in the simplest way: by adding
>     (require 'cl) so that 'list*' is available.
> 
> Please don't do that.  It's not acceptable for any package in Emacs to
> do that.  The CL functions are not standard parts of the Emacs Lisp
> language, and the user may have defined the same names in some other
> way.

Usually
(eval-when-compile '(require 'cl))

should be sufficient, and it is what is recommended for that
functionality in the Elisp manual.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-09 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-08  1:31 VC-SVN problem Shawn Boyette
2004-05-07 19:58 ` Karl Fogel
2004-05-08  2:26   ` Shawn Boyette
2004-05-09  0:16     ` Karl Fogel
2004-05-09  7:28       ` John Paul Wallington
2004-05-10 21:33         ` Jim Blandy
2004-05-11  7:50           ` John Paul Wallington
2004-05-11 12:23           ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-09  8:10       ` Miles Bader
2004-05-09 13:16       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-05-09 18:47       ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-09 18:25         ` Karl Fogel
2004-05-09 19:01         ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-05-09 19:11           ` David Kastrup
2004-05-09 10:38   ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-10 18:22   ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-05-10 19:16     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 21:56       ` Miles Bader

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