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From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elisp's cl package. Don't understand the notice about eval-when-compile
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:09:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xbaiocvo9hc1.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20524da70903260809g669b044fy65e037eeab5a90ae@mail.gmail.com

On 2009-03-26 15:09 +0000, Samuel Wales wrote:
> Has the inclusion of cl.el caused big problems for anybody? For most
> things, experienced people seem to use a personal prefix.

No, I don't think the problem lies in cl.el; it is more a political
decision or RMS personal preference.

>
> If Emacs Lisp has been adopting cl.el for many years, why not fast
>forward?
> 
> Package developers and experienced users seem to use it a lot.  It is
> not just for people who come from CL.

Many people have argued for this. Nobody can bend RMS's will. For this,
I rather have XEmacs around, which is welcoming innovations.

-- 
.:  Leo  :.  [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ]  .: I use Emacs :.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-26 20:09 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
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 [this message]
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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