Re: Lisp files that load cl-lib in problematical ways

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > debug.el `require' cl-lib as its first line of non-comment
  > source, and then goes on to use it 6 times: `cl-prin1' (2),
  > `cl-defstruct' (1), and `cl-getf' (3).

  > cl-prin1 is found in cl-print.el, cl-defstruct in cl-macs.el
  > and cl-getf in cl-extra.el.

It sounds like this should be easy to fix.

I would expect that there is an important reason to call cl-prin1.
But I'd expect it is easy to avoid cl-getf -- that using
it struct some developer as "more elegant".

As for cl-defstruct, that is a macro, so it should not be an issue really.

Does this mean it would be simple to fix debug.el by writing out cl-getf,
loading cl-print.el, and not requirng cl-lib?

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