From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what is copy-list? Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:56:49 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87lj2e22hd.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <49a66c3b-f48b-4e07-8034-044eb6909f79@f21g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295620856 11496 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2011 14:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 21 15:40:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PgIAU-00074b-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:40:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44216 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PgIAO-00014w-6P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:40:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="+bxBiZT/p0ZLLuDb5H+JCw"; logging-data="16413"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18VX7N/tqcW8VeRXH2f1gcl" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:I6J4LHipbNTkb3Llj70VV/BNwm4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184488 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78648 Archived-At: In article , Le Wang wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, rusi 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***