Re: CC mode loads CL

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Dave Love wrote:

>Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

>I meant the point about it [cc-external-require and friends] being
>impenetrable.  Emacs maintainers (?) apparently can't follow it, and it
>defeats features and conventions meant to help with the sort of things
>involved.  (This isn't news.)

I think the point behind these macros is to ensure that when a new
version of cc-mode is building, all the cross-references between the
cc-files.el will find the new versions, not any old versions which might
well currently be loaded.

>> Even if that call _could_ be put in an `eval-when-compile', I still
>> would be extremely reluctant to do so without somebody at
>> address@hidden telling me it would be OK.  Maybe cc-mode _really_
>> needs cl at runtime.  I do not know cc-mode well enough to decide and
>> you said you do not either.

>Not exactly.  It's a trivial experiment to verify, for instance, that `c-mode'
>_does_ use CL functions; I just hadn't cared to.

>> So I do not believe that we can make any further progress until somebody at
>> address@hidden clarifies things.

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Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)