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From: rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what is copy-list?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:39:08 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81ce62d1-45fe-4179-a986-34ab85e09dfd@u18g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4.1295597760.27625.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Jan 21, 1:15 pm, Le Wang <l26w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But is the (require 'cl) not emacs cruft?
>
> Not really.  Not requiring functions and macros before calling them is a bug
> in fsharp-mode.  Whether or not 'cl should be provided as the default is
> another issue all together.  The reality is that if you customize your emacs
> in any significant way, you'll probably load something that requires 'cl at
> runtime.  However anything that makes it into GNU Emacs must not require 'cl
> at runtime.  This is the current policy, but lots of people disagree with
> it.
>
> --
> Le

CL (non-inclusion) is emacs cruft
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2003-04/msg00944.html


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-21  6:28 what is copy-list? rusi
2011-01-21  6:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-21  6:43   ` rusi
2011-01-21  6:44     ` rusi
2011-01-21  6:57     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-21  8:15     ` Le Wang
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4.1295597760.27625.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-21  8:39       ` rusi [this message]
2011-01-21 13:56       ` Barry Margolin
2011-01-22  5:08         ` rusi
2011-01-23 19:15           ` Barry Margolin
2011-01-21  7:48 ` Tim X

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