Re: VC-SVN problem

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     So, I'd like to fix this in vc-svn.el, in the simplest way: by adding
>     (require 'cl) so that 'list*' is available.
> 
> Please don't do that.  It's not acceptable for any package in Emacs to
> do that.  The CL functions are not standard parts of the Emacs Lisp
> language, and the user may have defined the same names in some other
> way.

Usually
(eval-when-compile '(require 'cl))

should be sufficient, and it is what is recommended for that
functionality in the Elisp manual.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum