Re: [External] : Re: Shrinking the C core

[Richard Stallman]

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  > But the way it is used
  > today, as we just heard in 28% of vanilla Emacs files, isn't
  > because of CL emulation or compatibility purposes, but because
  > it adds useful features and covers aspects that non-cl-lib
  > Elisp leaves blank.

I consider this a problem.  Such frequent use of the cl facilities --
even though it is just the macros -- adds those cl macros to what
people need to know to understand those files.

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