Re: [PATCH] Allow hiding stashes from vc-dir

[Stefan Monnier]

> I believe you [1]. Although in my mind the whole point of the autoload
> cookies is that you donʼt need to require the whole of cl-lib just to
> use one of its functions.

The autoload cookies in cl-extra.el are setup such that it means "once
cl-lib is loaded, those functions get autoloaded".  Which is why you
still need to load cl-lib in order to setup the autoload.

But really, you don't need to know any of that.  cl-subseq is a function
exported by cl-lib, so you need to load cl-lib to use the function (the
fact that it uses an autoload is a detail internal to cl-lib, just like
the fact that it's not defined in cl-lib.el but in cl-extra.el).


        Stefan