Re: Bootstrap/autoload policy (was Re: regular expressions that match nothing)

[Stefan Monnier]

>> cl-every is not autoloaded (in general).  It's only autoloaded after you
>> (require 'cl-lib), which is The Right Way to get it defined (as opposed
>> to requiring cl-extra which is wrong because where cl-every is defined
>> is an internal implementation detail of cl-lib).
> I thought so too, but rx.el already did require cl-lib, and that was
> apparently not enough. Hence my confusion.

Hmm... the bootstrap is a funny beast and we additionally impose extra
constraints to try and catch some bugs so... without seeing the error's
backtrace I don't think I can say much more at this point.


        Stefan