Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc

[Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>]

() Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
() Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:30:15 -0500

   That would be an ok feature, since it
   would not do anything automatically.

i don't think it would be always ok.  for example, consider a set
of interdependent libraries misbehaving when components are loaded
in the wrong order.  the result is curiosity- but not necessarily
user-induced bug reports.  i would hate to have this conversation:

 user      : i clicked on "foo link" and emacs barfed: FOO-ERROR.
 programmer: well don't do that.
          u: well, why is that link displayed?
          p: because we don't handle "improper load sequence".
          u: what is the "proper load sequence"?
          p: advertized entry point is M-x bar RET.
          u: what does that have to do w/ foo?
          p: nothing.
          u: ???

in other words, i personally am disinclined to support this kind
of fuzziness (entering the subroutine from the side).

thi