Mercurial > emacs
changeset 40590:e9ca70d27e37
Explain when not to use CL.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:00:17 +0000 |
| parents | c44c1b0bdf92 |
| children | a8c2103fca6f |
| files | man/cl.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/cl.texi Wed Oct 31 21:59:42 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/cl.texi Wed Oct 31 22:00:17 2001 +0000 @@ -121,6 +121,16 @@ implementation of Common Lisp, @dfn{CL} adds enough functionality to make Emacs Lisp programming significantly more convenient. +@strong{Please note:} the @dfn{CL} functions are not standard parts of +the Emacs Lisp name space, so it is legitimate for users to define +them with other, conflicting meanings. To avoid conflicting with +those user activities, we have a policy that packages installed in +Emacs must not load @dfn{CL} at run time. (It is ok for them to load +@dfn{CL} at compile time only, with @code{eval-when-compile}, and use +the macros it provides.) If you are writing packages that you plan to +distribute and invite widespread use for, you might want to observe +the same rule. + Some Common Lisp features have been omitted from this package for various reasons: