From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I clean up "might not be defined" wrnings?
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:53:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a93ju6fx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141121220357.GA24313@thyrsus.com>
Eric S. Raymond writes:
> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>:
> > esr@snark (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
> >
> > > I've started a significant refactoring and simplification of the VC
> > > code. This has involved moving functions to different files, which is
> > > causing "functions might not be defined" warnings.
Have you done a bootstrap?
> > > What is the approved way to prevent these
None. Most uses of declare-function are crocks committed by
criminally lazy programmers.[1] IMHO FWIW and you have a right to my
opinion, which is invaluable. :-)
> > > or clean them up?
As Lars says. In particular, you should autoload the entry points,
and require libraries containing functions called by functions you are
defining.
Steve
Footnotes:
[1] `declare-function' should be used only when the function might
not be available at runtime.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-22 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-21 19:28 How do I clean up "might not be defined" wrnings? Unknown
2014-11-21 21:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-21 22:03 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-22 5:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-11-21 22:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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