Deprecate copy-record in favor of copy-sequence

Since copy-sequence seems to be needed anyway for records, have it
work on records, and remove copy-record as being superfluous.
* doc/lispref/records.texi (Records, Record Functions):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el (cl-defstruct):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio.el (make-instance, clone):
* test/src/alloc-tests.el (record-3):
Use copy-sequence, not copy-record, to copy records.
* doc/lispref/sequences.texi (Sequence Functions)
(Array Functions): Document that aref and copy-sequence
work on records.
* etc/NEWS: Omit copy-record.
* src/alloc.c (Fcopy_record): Remove.
* src/data.c (Faref): Document that arg can be a record.
* src/fns.c (Fcopy_sequence): Copy records, too.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/data.c b/src/data.c
index 3ffca54658d..903e809d235 100644
--- a/src/data.c
+++ b/src/data.c
@@ -2266,8 +2266,8 @@ function chain of symbols.  */)
 /* Extract and set vector and string elements.  */
 
 DEFUN ("aref", Faref, Saref, 2, 2, 0,
-       doc: /* Return the element of ARRAY at index IDX.
-ARRAY may be a vector, a string, a char-table, a bool-vector,
+       doc: /* Return the element of ARG at index IDX.
+ARG may be a vector, a string, a char-table, a bool-vector, a record,
 or a byte-code object.  IDX starts at 0.  */)
   (register Lisp_Object array, Lisp_Object idx)
 {