From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elisp's cl package. Don't understand the notice about eval-when-compile
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:30:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9395cfa-611e-48fd-9df6-706d1a29ed98@y6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9032ef00-187f-47ad-a2de-e0d07a3303ee@s38g2000prg.googlegroups.com
On Mar 26, 10:12 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes:
> For example, when i do describe-function on “pop”, it says:
> «pop is a Lisp macro in `subr.el'.»
>
> but after loading cl, it says:
> «pop is a Lisp macro in `cl.el'.»
>
> So, it appears, cl package also shadow elisp symbols (apparantly they
> are the same thing, but if so, why there's one in still in cl when
> already moved to elisp?).
The doc string of the version in subr.el states "LISTNAME must be a
symbol whose value is a list", while the cl.el version handles non-
symbol values by calling cl-do-pop.
In general, cl versions with the same name provide a superset of the
elisp functionality.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 3:02 elisp's cl package. Don't understand the notice about eval-when-compile Xah Lee
2009-03-25 4:42 ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-03-25 10:02 ` Thomas F. Burdick
2009-03-26 2:12 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-26 5:30 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-03-26 13:15 ` Thomas F. Burdick
2009-04-01 1:01 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-26 8:58 ` Leo
2009-03-26 9:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-03-26 12:37 ` Leo
2009-03-26 15:09 ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-26 20:09 ` Leo
2009-03-26 21:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-03-27 1:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.4060.1238118196.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-27 6:30 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-27 8:30 ` Kojak
2009-03-27 10:37 ` David Kastrup
2009-03-29 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4213.1238350954.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <2f147e23-2e25-4cfb-885c-64d835993b12@y6g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
2009-03-30 20:03 ` B. T. Raven
2009-03-30 20:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-03-31 4:12 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-31 5:40 ` B. T. Raven
2009-03-31 9:50 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2009-03-31 10:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-03-26 2:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
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