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Re: cl-lib warnings


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: cl-lib warnings
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:13:02 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 23:33:29 +0100
> Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 
>       emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 6:14 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Out of 1600+, yes.
> 
> Well, my point was not that it was a majority, though 11.78% is more than I 
> expected.
> My point is that there are among them some packages that are (quite likely) 
> widely used
> (like desktop.el, or the help ones, or Org) so even if only 12% of .el files 
> load cl-lib,
> that surely represents a much bigger percentage of Emacs instances.

I'm afraid if we preload cl-lib, that would open the gates of hell
whereby all of our code will be rewritten in cl-lib dialect that is
(at least for me) much harder to read and maintain.  So maybe wait
until I'm safely dead (at least as far as Emacs is concerned) before
doing that.



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