From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: purpose of (provide 'hashtable-print-readable) in subr.el?
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:01:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ehrqeqzt.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86aa2f5rg8.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:04:23 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> This looks odd to me: subr.el end with these lines:
>
> | ;; The following statement ought to be in print.c, but `provide' can't
> | ;; be used there.
> | ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-08/msg00236.html
> | (when (hash-table-p (car (read-from-string
> | (prin1-to-string (make-hash-table)))))
> | (provide 'hashtable-print-readable))
>
> (Yes, I've read the mentioned thread in emacs-dev.)
>
> What's the purpose of this `provide' call?
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79821
https://raw.github.com/skeeto/emacs-java/master/java-docs.el
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-14 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-13 20:04 purpose of (provide 'hashtable-print-readable) in subr.el? Michael Heerdegen
2012-04-14 3:36 ` Leo
2012-04-14 7:01 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-04-15 17:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
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