Re: what is copy-list?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.4.1295597760.27625.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > But is the (require 'cl) not emacs cruft?
> >
> 
> Not really.  Not requiring functions and macros before calling them is a bug
> in fsharp-mode.  Whether or not 'cl should be provided as the default is
> another issue all together.  The reality is that if you customize your emacs
> in any significant way, you'll probably load something that requires 'cl at
> runtime.  However anything that makes it into GNU Emacs must not require 'cl
> at runtime.  This is the current policy, but lots of people disagree with
> it.

It's not fsharp-mode that requires cl, it's his .emacs that's trying to 
use a cl function to perform some customization of it.

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