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Re: Some libraries does (require 'cl)

From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: Some libraries does (require 'cl)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 03:21:21 +0200
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Richard Stallman wrote:

    Some libraries (iswitchb.el for example) does

       (require 'cl)

    without (eval-when-compile ...). Is not that incorrect?

It is incorrect, in general.  However, in the case of iswitchb,
it is a no-op:

    ;; CL needed for cadr and last
    (if (not (and (fboundp 'cadr)
                  (fboundp 'last)))
        (require 'cl))

The current Emacs has `cadr' and `last' as primitives, so cl
will never be loaded.


There are some more in a comment I made to this in another message.
However there is one thing I do not understand and that other people have asked: If one want to use functions from cl.el (not only macros), how does one do then? Is (eval-when-compile (require 'cl)) sufficient then?
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