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bug#20056: 25.0.50; Remove non Common Lisp stuff from cl*.el libraries
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Daniel Colascione |
Subject: |
bug#20056: 25.0.50; Remove non Common Lisp stuff from cl*.el libraries |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Mar 2015 14:19:10 -0700 |
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On 03/08/2015 02:12 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
> It is perfectly fine to extend or redesign Emacs Lisp any way we
> like. And we can take whatever we want from Common Lisp and do
> whatever we want with it. We need not try to emulate any given
> Common-Lisp function or macro. But the things we put in the
> Common-Lisp emulation package should be emulations of Common Lisp
> things, IMO - things designed by the Common-Lisp designers for
> Common Lisp.
>
> It is not appropriate to add non Common-Lisp things to our
> emulation of Common Lisp. That's all.
I think cl-lib has long ago stopped being an emulation of common lisp.
Now, it's a CL-*inspired* utility library. I doubt that there's a risk
of real harmful confusion between this library and actual Common Lisp.
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