Re: CC mode loads CL

[Dave Love]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

>    You see my point?
>
> I am sorry, but I believe I am missing it.

I meant the point about it being impenetrable.  Emacs maintainers (?)
apparently can't follow it, and it defeats features and conventions
meant to help with the sort of things involved.  (This isn't news.)

> Even if that call _could_
> be put in an `eval-when-compile', I still would be extremely reluctant
> to do so without somebody at address@hidden telling me it would
> be OK.  Maybe cc-mode _really_ needs cl at runtime.  I do not know
> cc-mode well enough to decide and you said you do not either.

Not exactly.  It's a trivial experiment to verify, for instance, that
`c-mode' _does_ use CL functions; I just hadn't cared to.

> So I do
> not believe that we can make any further progress until somebody at
> address@hidden clarifies things.