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31.0.50; Add support for types accepted by `cl-typep' to cl-generic?

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Ponce <da_vid <at> orange.fr>
Cc: 77725 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#77725: 31.0.50; Add support for types accepted by `cl-typep' to cl-generic?
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:20:00 -0400

>> Regarding a possible merge in cl-lib, should cl-types.el be copied at
>> the end of cl-lib, after cl-macs is loaded?  If I correctly understand
>> the logic of loading these libs ;-)
>
> I looked into this a bit more, and it turns out that cl-generic
> depends on cl-lib, so the code in cl-types.el that depends on
> cl-generic can't go in cl-lib. This concern the two definitions
> at the end of cl-types.el:

Yes, as you've seen, the placement can be tricky.  There are bootstrap
constraints as well as "general design" desires, and they all kind
of pull in different directions.
I'll take a closer look and come back with a proposal.


        Stefan

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