Re: Lisp files that load cl-lib in problematical ways

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Quite a lot of the function calls are things like cl-assert, cl-incf, or
  > cl-defgeneric, which won't cause the loading of cl- until they are
  > actually run.

Those are macros, right?  These macros are not supposed to need cl-lib
at run time; they are supposed to be handled (when the code is
compiled) at compile time.

Maybe people changed these macros and caused them to load cl-lib.

But maybe not all of them.

I looked into cl-assert and found that it generates a call to
cl--assertion-failed, which is defined in xo cl-preloaded.el.
So I think that macro is ok -- the problem in question doesn't
seem to happen in cl-assert.

Which of the cl- macros really generate calls that require cl-lib
to be loaded?  We should fix those.

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