Re: Lisp files that load cl-lib in problematical ways

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>>> Introduction of symbols that are not needed.
>>
>> Sure, but that's rather subjective.
>
> No, it's completely objective: we add symbols to obarray ...

This part is objective, indeed.

> ... that don't need to be there.

But this part seems more subjective (based on a very strict definition
of "need", a lot of now-preloaded things don't really need to be).

>> One could also argue that it is a good thing to have certain symbols
>> available immediately, for example because they are typically
>> needed.
>
> We have autoloading to take care of that.

Yes, of course.  But we also have preloading.  ;-)