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Re: Meaning of Common Lisp Warning
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Meaning of Common Lisp Warning |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:38:51 +0100 |
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:17 PM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:49:35PM +0100, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> No it is because the authors of emacs are stubborn. They don't want
>> people to write emacs code with these common lisp like functions.
There has been subtle technical problems using the cl package because
of name clashes with Emacs functions/macros. I do not know if anyone
is sure they are resolved yet. (I have seen subtle problems.)
>> Just ignore this warning.
>
> Agreed: if you aren't aiming at developing a core Emacs package you can
> safely ignore that.
You can perhaps, but not people using your packages. Wouldn't it be
better to just follow the advice, use
(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
What is the problem with doing that?