Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 a9c48d5: Additional fixes for file notification

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

>  Finally, to make things even more muddy, we have recently piled
>  additional, non-Common Lisp stuff into the `cl-' namespace.
>  What's that about?  That just confuses people.

> This particular problem was reported as bug #20056, which was
> just closed today as "wont-fix".

Daniel wrote:

> 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.

I agree with Daniel. cl-lib.el is an Emacs Lisp library that makes certain
Common Lisp work-alikes available. It doesn't need to be restricted to *only*
providing functions also in Common Lisp. As long as what's in there has a cl-
prefix, it is in the right place unless it clearly does not belong there. If
you don't like the non-CL functions, don't use them.

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