Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> 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
