Re: CL package serious deficiencies

[Richard Stallman]

    The latest objection is that dumping CL would Emacs would increase the
    size of the printed and bound Emacs Lisp Reference Manual from the
    FSF. I find this objection unconvincing because it applies to _any_
    new feature, and I don't think we're against adding new features to Emacs.

The point is that it would make the CL functions part of the standard
Emacs namespace.  That has two problems:

* CL is ugly.  It is not well integrated with the rest of Emacs Lisp.

* We would have to document the CL functions in the manual, which is a
big increase in the size.  It is not that that is totally intolerable,
it's that the benefit is not worth the burden.


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