From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what is copy-list?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:56:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-3B8DF2.08564921012011@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4.1295597760.27625.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.4.1295597760.27625.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, rusi <rustompmody@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.
It's not fsharp-mode that requires cl, it's his .emacs that's trying to
use a cl function to perform some customization of it.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 13:56 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
2011-01-21 13:56 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2011-01-22 5:08 ` rusi
2011-01-23 19:15 ` Barry Margolin
2011-01-21 7:48 ` Tim X
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