Re: CVS: Symbol's function definition is void: ignore-errors

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:
> 
> > Of course, the code can be written without use of copy-list,
> > delete-duplicates, etc., but some of the functions provided by cl.el
> > are non-trivial, and it's a shame to have to duplicate the work that
> > went into implementing them.
> 
> Yup.
> 
> How about importing all the functions from cl into Gnus, but
> renaming them `gnus-*'?  :-)

Two remarks:

a) There are a lot of them.  You wouldn't want all that in Gnus,
   renamed as gnus-*.

b) Some of them carry interesting meta-information that is not easy to
   transfer, such as instructions for byte-optimizer.  cl.el is
   smarter than it appears -- some of the seemingly cluttered function
   and macro constructs compile to efficient byte-code.  (See the
   various compiler macro definitions in cl-macs.el)

Maybe it would be a better approach to really really beg Stallman to
allow Gnus to use the nice CL thingies.  Gnus is *huge*.  I don't
think anyone will notice the difference.