Re: CC mode loads CL

[Dave Love]

Martin Stjernholm <address@hidden> writes:

> I know that(*), but in this case I take it that it's a special kind of
> load that only occurs initially when building from cvs?

If building it from the development version causes problems, that's a
bug somewhere that needs to be fixed.

> *)  I started a discussion about it some months ago on the emacs-devel
>     list but received no satisfactory justification for that policy.
>     Therefore, considering that the alternative to using those basic
>     functions (i.e. code duplication in some form) is obviously very
>     bad, I (generally speaking) find it hard to comply with it.

You'll notice the duplication in CL of functions which occur in the
core with different definitions.  (I didn't find it so hard to comply
with in large packages.)