[implementations-list] [PATCH] Small fixes

Tue Dec 1 22:55:06 CET 2009

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:38:48PM +0000, Vegard Øye wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:06:13 -0500
> > From: jjfoerch at earthlink.net
> > To: implementations-list at lists.ourproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [implementations-list] [PATCH] Small fixes
> >
> > Although I'm not directly involved in vimpulse, I would recommend
> > looking at the situation where cl.el is used and evaluating whether
> > it is truly necessary in the first place.
> 
> The `destructuring-bind' messages are recent; I never had them with
> older versions of Vimpulse. So presumably, not much rewriting is
> necessary to revert to Vanilla Elisp.
> 
> `M-x occur' lists 7 matches for `destructuring-bind' in vimpulse.el.
> 
> It wouldn't make any difference to the Emacs maintainers if one purged
> (require 'cl) from the code and just included a reference to it in the
> installation instructions, right?

The right way to use cl.el is:

   (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))

-- 
John Foerch