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>>>>> "HN" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:

 HN> It would be really nice if GNU Emacs standards could change to at
 HN> least allow the major packages to use the CL extensions.

It's fine to require cl when compiling.

 HN> Of course, the code can be written without use of copy-list,
 HN> delete-duplicates, etc., but some of the functions provided by cl.el
 HN> are non-trivial, 

`delete-duplicates' isn't entirely trivial...

 HN> and it's a shame to have to duplicate the work that went into
 HN> implementing them.

If the case is made that there's a common need for such particular CL
functions they might be moved into the core.  The usual use of `push'
and `pop' is now covered, for instance.