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24.4.50; defclass creates undocumented *-list-p function

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eric Ludlam <ericludlam <at> gmail.com>, Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>, Eric Ludlam <eric <at> siege-engine.com>, David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>, 18494 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18494: 24.4.50; defclass creates undocumented *-list-p function
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 22:21:19 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I'm not that familiar with the nuances of typep, but if there is now
>> a typep built into Emacs, EIEIO will need to remove it's local copy of
>> an old typep,
>
> I removed eieio--typep and used cl-typep instead (one of the benefits
> of cl-lib is that it's OK to load it at run time).
>
>> and I could certainly convert over to using something list (list foo).
>
> Please try it.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

This was seven years ago, and apparently defclass still creates the
undocumented -list-p functions.  Is the consensus that they should be
removed?  Perhaps we should generate them as obsolete functions, to
allow third-party usages of them to be notified?

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