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Re: [O] Org release 8.2.5g (minor release from maint)


From: Nick Dokos
Subject: Re: [O] Org release 8.2.5g (minor release from maint)
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:20:53 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:

>>> I have the impression that cl-lib is (was?) frowned upon by upstream for
>>> packages that are included in the emacs distribution. But it's only
>>> a vague recollection at this point: am I wrong? am I thinking of
>>> something else common-lispish?
>>
>> I thought that the point of cl-lib was so that packages like Org-mode
>> and gnus would stop re-implementing pieces of the cl package.  I could
>> easily be wrong.
>
> I remembered seeing something on emacs-devel about this, and just found
> this statement from Stefan Monnier from a few days ago:
>
>
> Note that the main motivation behind the move to cl-lib is so that it's
> perfectly acceptable to use cl-lib functions (since they don't pollute
> the global namespace any more).  So if you prefer to avoid cl-lib
> functions, that's fine, but if you want to use them, that's perfectly
> fine as well.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
> Interpret as you will!
>
>

Thanks for putting me right!

-- 
Nick




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