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From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: the ...-unload-hook convention doesn't work
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:08:34 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401091708.i09H8YU13964@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzqhdz5w5iz.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (message from Dave Love on Fri,  09 Jan 2004 14:39:00 +0000)

I can not but wonder what we exactly want to achieve with `unload-feature'.
Is there any hope of ever making it safe enough to be called in an
actual editing session in which non-trivial work is invested and will
_continue_ to be invested after unloading a feature?  I do not believe
that it currently comes even remotely close to that standard.

The worst thing is that even reloading the feature often can not undo
the damage:

ELISP> (fboundp 'macroexpand)
t
ELISP> (require 'cl)
cl
ELISP> (fboundp 'macroexpand)
t
ELISP> (unload-feature 'cl) ;; Long output flushed
ELISP> (require 'cl)
cl
ELISP> (fboundp 'macroexpand)
nil
ELISP> 

Sincerely,

Luc.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-09 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-05 18:24 the ...-unload-hook convention doesn't work Luc Teirlinck
2004-01-06 14:33 ` Dave Love
2004-01-07 15:05   ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-09 14:39     ` Dave Love
2004-01-09 17:08       ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2004-01-11 19:37         ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-12 19:35           ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-01-16  0:23           ` Dave Love
     [not found]           ` <mailman.744.1074223463.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-16  6:21             ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-16 19:54               ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-17  2:22                 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-17  0:21               ` Dave Love
2004-01-12 15:23         ` Dave Love
2004-01-11 19:36       ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-16  0:18         ` Dave Love
2004-01-16 19:54           ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-05 15:01 Dave Love

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