Re: elisp's cl package. Don't understand the notice about eval-when-compile

[Leo]

On 2009-03-25 10:02 +0000, Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
>> And, this package does not require users to byte-compile it. Then,
>> how's the eval-when-compile solve the name conflict problem?
>>
>> does it imply that if you distribute a package using cl, it must be
>> byte compiled eventually?
>
> No. It's saying that if you are trying to get your package included in
> the official Emacs distribution, you can only use macros from cl.el,
> not functions.

So many packages come up with their own ugly versions of functions that
are already in cl.el. I think this policy is utterly insane these days.

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