Re: Using cl in rst.el and elsewhere

[Leo]

On 2012-06-03 03:56 +0800, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> That's indeed the upcoming solution: as discussed somewhat recently,
> I suggested we provide a new package `cl-lib' which would be like CL but
> with a clean namespace (i.e. everything starts with "cl-").
> Then (require 'cl-lib) would be perfectly acceptable.
> cl.el would become a file that just provides a bunch of aliases for
> backward compatibility purposes.

We are already using CLOS (in the form of EIEIO), so the elisp lib cl.el
really has been unfairly treated for such a long time because it was put
into emacs too ahead of time and because of rms's dislike of CL (the
language). Also putting a cl- in front of everything merely reminds
people of Common Lisp. Can we just think of cl.el as some good ideas
stolen from Common Lisp and forget about it hereafter.

Leo