bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> subr.el has had a dolist definition since at least Emacs 21.x; ie 9 years.
>> Therefore this cannot be a major issue in practice.
> In my book it is still a bug, no matter how many years ago this bug were
> introduced:

>     - To have two different implementations of same function.
>     - To not be able to rely on uniform behavior.

You look at it the wrong way: the problem is not with dolist, it's that
you use `return' which is a special form that's not defined in standard
Elisp.  After (require 'cl), `return' gets defined and things work as
you expect.


        Stefan