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* doc/misc/cl.texi (Organization): More details on cl-lib.el versus cl.el.

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2012-10-29 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* cl.texi (Organization): More details on cl-lib.el versus cl.el.
2012-10-28 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* cl.texi (Multiple Values, Common Lisp Compatibility):

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@ -182,17 +182,30 @@ All you have to do is @code{(require 'cl-lib)}, and @file{cl-lib.el}
will take care of pulling in the other files when they are
needed.
There is another file, @file{cl.el}, which was the main entry point
to the CL package prior to Emacs 24.3. Nowadays, it is replaced
by @file{cl-lib.el}. The two provide the same features, but use
different function names (in fact, @file{cl.el} just defines aliases
to the @file{cl-lib.el} definitions). In particular, the old @file{cl.el}
does not use a clean namespace. For this reason, Emacs has a policy
that packages distributed with Emacs must not load @code{cl} at run time.
(It is ok for them to load @code{cl} at @emph{compile} time, with
@code{eval-when-compile}, and use the macros it provides.) There is
no such restriction on the use of @code{cl-lib}. New code should use
@code{cl-lib} rather than @code{cl}. @xref{Naming Conventions}.
There is another file, @file{cl.el}, which was the main entry point to
the CL package prior to Emacs 24.3. Nowadays, it is replaced by
@file{cl-lib.el}. The two provide the same features (in most cases),
but use different function names (in fact, @file{cl.el} mainly just
defines aliases to the @file{cl-lib.el} definitions). Where
@file{cl-lib.el} defines a function called, for example,
@code{cl-incf}, @file{cl.el} uses the same name but without the
@samp{cl-} prefix, e.g. @code{incf} in this example. There are a few
exceptions to this. First, functions such as @code{cl-defun} where
the unprefixed version was already used for a standard Emacs Lisp
function. In such cases, the @file{cl.el} version adds a @samp{*}
suffix, e.g. @code{defun*}. Second, there are some obsolete features
that are only implemented in @file{cl.el}, not in @file{cl-lib.el},
because they are replaced by other standard Emacs Lisp features.
Finally, in a very few cases the old @file{cl.el} versions do not
behave in exactly the same way as the @file{cl-lib.el} versions.
@xref{Obsolete Features}.
Since the old @file{cl.el} does not use a clean namespace, Emacs has a
policy that packages distributed with Emacs must not load @code{cl} at
run time. (It is ok for them to load @code{cl} at @emph{compile}
time, with @code{eval-when-compile}, and use the macros it provides.)
There is no such restriction on the use of @code{cl-lib}. New code
should use @code{cl-lib} rather than @code{cl}.
There is one more file, @file{cl-compat.el}, which defines some
routines from the older Quiroz CL package that are not otherwise
@ -4666,13 +4679,6 @@ referenced by @code{cl-return} or @code{cl-return-from} inside the block.
Following is a list of all known incompatibilities between this
package and Common Lisp as documented in Steele (2nd edition).
@ignore
Certain function names, such as @code{member}, @code{assoc}, and
@code{floor}, were already taken by (incompatible) Emacs Lisp
functions; this package appends @samp{*} to the names of its
Common Lisp versions of these functions.
@end ignore
The word @code{cl-defun} is required instead of @code{defun} in order
to use extended Common Lisp argument lists in a function. Likewise,
@code{cl-defmacro} and @code{cl-function} are versions of those forms
@ -4684,6 +4690,7 @@ The @code{equal} predicate does not distinguish
between IEEE floating-point plus and minus zero. The @code{cl-equalp}
predicate has several differences with Common Lisp; @pxref{Predicates}.
@c FIXME no longer provided by cl.
The @code{setf} mechanism is entirely compatible, except that
setf-methods return a list of five values rather than five
values directly. Also, the new ``@code{setf} function'' concept