Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> writes: > 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!
Great, so should Org-mode require cl-lib and stop supporting the following functions? - org-block - org-count - org-every - org-find-if - org-reduce - org-remove-if - org-remove-if-not - org-return - org-some - org-sort - org-sublist -- Eric Schulte https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte PGP: 0x614CA05D
