From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 'Emacs-Devel devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: autoload cookies for defcustoms
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:36:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FB89D7C9FC814C8EBEEF42C940D57755@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtyuaqk5i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> AFAIK, `purecopy' has nothing to do with it, except that *if*
> a defcustom is preloaded (either because it's in a preloaded file or
> because it has an autoload cookie), then it may be desirable
> to purecopy parts of its default value. But it should never be a
> reason to decide whether to autoload or not.
Very good to hear.
However, looking at the options that actually use `purecopy' and have autoload
cookies, I have doubts that that guideline has been respected. It _seems_ that
`purecopy' has been added here and there and _consequently_ an autoload cookie
was then added.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-25 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-23 18:31 autoload cookies for defcustoms Drew Adams
2010-01-23 20:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-23 20:38 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-25 2:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-25 5:13 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-25 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-25 20:36 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-01-26 2:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-26 3:12 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-26 11:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-29 9:46 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-08-29 19:11 ` Glenn Morris
2010-08-30 12:30 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-08-30 15:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-30 23:20 ` Glenn Morris
2010-08-30 23:52 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-08-31 3:32 ` Andy Wingo
2010-08-31 8:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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