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- Message-ID: <m0nBi59-0008QtC@liasun6.epfl.ch>
- From: simon%lia.di.epfl.ch@lucid.com (Simon Leinen)
- Subject: Re: Solution to buff-menu.el bug
- References: <93Jan11.103550pst.73941@atalanta.adoc.xerox.com>
- <GAMIN.93Jan11180636@amadeus.ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:50:45 GMT
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
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- Sender: bug-lucid-emacs-request@lucid.com
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- > Many said that the 'cl package has problems -- and they are probably
- > right, but the main problem is that those who make such claims can't
- > pinpoint them and can't present examples. If we are to fix those
- > problems, please elaborate; 'cl is useful and certainly isn't beyond
- > salvation.
-
- % ls -l */cl.el*
- -rw-r--r-- 1 x11 logiciel 91006 Jun 30 1992 utils/cl.el
- -rw-r--r-- 1 x11 logiciel 50133 Jul 30 02:17 utils/cl.elc
-
- I guess this is one of the problems. Loading 50K of .elc just to get
- the `unless' macro is certainly not economical. It would have been
- better to rewrite the two occurences of (unless foo bar) as (if foo
- nil bar) or something like that.
- --
- Simon.
-