Re: Gnus always loads cl

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> It is correct if you mean there might be puthash provided by
> other than cl even if Emacs 20 is running.  And that form will
> also load the other cl run-time functions, gethash,
> hash-table-count, etc., which are required by spam-stat.el.
> Probably, it should strictly be made as follows:
>
> (unless (and (fboundp 'gethash) (fboundp 'hash-table-count)
> 	     (fboundp 'make-hash-table) (fboundp 'mapc)
> 	     (fboundp 'puthash))
>   (require 'cl)
>   (unless (fboundp 'puthash)
>     (defalias 'puthash 'cl-puthash)))
>
> However, if such a thing is required, my will inclines to
> forsake Emacs 20 users.  Do you have any other ideas?

Why forsake Emacs 20 users?  The code is not that terrible :-)

And then, maybe it's sufficient to test some of those functions
instead of all of them -- we expect them to be defined in the same
file anyway, right?

kai
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