[slime-devel] Re: possible typo in slime.el

Use 'cl' to our heart's content. Try to minimize use of 'cl' at runtime, ultimately cut it out. "Stop using 'cl' right now, loading it is already breaking stuff!"

I think this is a political issue more than anything else... the GNU Emacs maintainers don't like cl to the extent that they create warnings for it; the XEmacs folks don't. I'm not sure to what extent cl.el modifies emacs-lisp behaviour; in Common Lisp you would have to use a macro, or wrap the defun in an eval-when clause :-)