Re: insert-string and Emacs Lisp

[Pavel Janík]

   From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
   Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:18:30 -0700 (MST)

   >        - mlsupport.el and mlconvert.el files are moved to obsolete/.
   > 
   > Given the absence of the ML support at C level, I don't
   > think mlconvert.el does any good.  Maybe we should simply
   > eliminate that.

Yes, mlconvert.el is useless and I will remove it completely.

   > Maybe we should delete all the ml-... functions from mlsupport.el
   > instead of mark them obsolete.  If people try to use it from converted
   > Mocklisp code, it won't actually run anyway.  The only thing that
   > might work is to use some of the non ml-... functions, which might
   > have been called from Emacs Lisp code.

I do not think it is worth the work. First, we are removing mocklisp in the
head only (when do you expect the release from it?). I have just checked
all elisp packages I use on my system and there is no one which uses any
mocklisp functions now. The only exception is/was insert-string which will
be moved into subr.el and marked obsolete (all packages are now rewritten
to use insert anyway).
-- 
Pavel Janík

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