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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Jim Blandy" <jimb@red-bean.com>
Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What constitutes a "function-defining form"
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:36:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwsgvpfw8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0809282330t4c927785t3121fd3548eacdd4@mail.gmail.com> (Jim Blandy's message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:30:02 -0700")

>> There is of course good reasons for that beeing hard-coded, but it would
>> be nice if make-autoload called a hook at the end when nothing did match.

> Better yet, put a property on the symbol that names the macro, and
> have make-autoload check that.  That way, macro authors can say for
> themselves what make-autoload should do.

Remember that those autoloads are generated without "load"ing files, so
the symbol property would need to be added in one of the preloaded files
(or in autoload.el), so you might as well add it directly in the code of
autoload.el.


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-29  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-27 16:15 What constitutes a "function-defining form" Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-27 17:05 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-29  6:30   ` Jim Blandy
2008-09-29  7:36     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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