From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: is requiring cl bad?
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:06:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv62427wt3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874njm2vlx.fsf@kanis.fr> (Ivan Kanis's message of "Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:29:30 +0100")
> I was under the impression that requiring cl was bad (TM). I can't
> remember why. Is it still so?
The CL package is unclean w.r.t to its use of the namespace. Using its
macros is tolerated because it only imposes this namespace mess during
byte-compilation of your package, but using its functions imposes the
mess during actual use of your package.
24.3 finally provides an alternative: `cl-lib' which offers the
same functionality but in a namespace-clean way (i.e. using a "cl-"
prefix everywhere).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-16 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-16 9:29 is requiring cl bad? Ivan Kanis
2012-12-16 10:14 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-16 10:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-12-16 10:36 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-16 11:00 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-12-16 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-17 19:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-12-18 1:58 ` Tony Day
2012-12-20 4:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2012-12-20 5:20 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-12-20 9:16 ` Helmut Eller
2012-12-21 7:05 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2012-12-21 9:24 ` Helmut Eller
2012-12-17 20:58 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-12-18 4:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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