Re: cl-lib warnings

[Yuan Fu]

> On Dec 21, 2022, at 11:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 

Wait, what constitutes of cl-lib dialect? Do you mean things like cl-defun? I 
hope using cl-loop and cl-reduce, cl-remove-if and the like doesn’t make code 
harder to read.

Yuan