BBDB 2.32 GNU Emacs 20.7 Debian 2.2 (potato)
Short story: Loading bbdb before cl can break code that uses cl's
`mapc'.
Long story: cl provides a mapc that can take any number of arguments,
as in Common Lisp. Programs (require 'cl) to access it. That
autoloads `mapc', among other functions. Autoloading does nothing if
the function is already defined. BBDB defines `mapc' if its not
already defined. If you load BBDB before cl, then cl can't autoload
mapc, and code using Common Lisp features of mapc fails.
Example 1:
Evaluate in a clean, fresh emacs
(require 'cl)
=> cl
(symbol-function 'mapc)
#<subr mapcar>
(mapc (lambda (a b)
(message "*** %s %s" a b))
'(1 2 3)
'(x y z))
=> (1 2 3)
Example 2:
Evaluate in a clean, fresh emacs
(require 'bbdb)
=> bbdb
(symbol-function 'mapc)
=> mapcar
(require 'cl)
=> cl
(symbol-function 'mapc)
=> mapcar
(mapc (lambda (a b)
(message "*** %s %s" a b))
'(1 2 3)
'(x y z))
error--> Wrong number of arguments: #<subr mapcar>, 3
Markus
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