Re: One example of code I can't understand

[Richard Stallman]

    > I'm going to remove this code in the version of the code that I
    > install elsewhere in Emacs.  But the functions in my version will have
    > different names, so the change won't affect Gnus.

    Sounds like code duplication to me.

Yes, for the moment.  Eventually we can delete the corresponding code
from mm-util.el and replace it with aliases pointing at these
functions.  You could keep the old code to include in a compatibility
pack when distributing Gnus separately.