From: Nathaniel Flath <flat0103@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Should require and provide be symmetrical?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:29:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e3a506e1002091729u3d70ed8bt2350c57b5d480f14@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I came across a problem with require and provide that seems rather
counterintuitive, although it is implicit in the documentaiton. If one file
provides a feature with (provide 'feature) and another requires it, there is
no guarantee that that specific file is loaded, even if no other file calls
(provide 'feature). I ran into this whil splitting up my personal
configuration - I was attempting to mirror the packages I was loading, so
for example org.el in my directory would contain customizations for
org-mode. However, in this file, a (require 'org) would cause an infinite
require error, as it tried to load itself instead of the org.el in emacs.
Should this behaviour be changed, or is there a reason for it?
Thanks,
Nathaniel Flath
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next reply other threads:[~2010-02-10 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-10 1:29 Nathaniel Flath [this message]
2010-02-10 2:44 ` Should require and provide be symmetrical? chad
2010-02-10 2:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-02-10 18:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-10 19:12 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
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