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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Basic question about autoload function
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:55:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY2a3BOdgTAZz3apuRv3srqmdvsKmGLuom=STHM0ZOgjFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I have recently realized that

  (autoload #'foo-fn "bar-pkg")

works even if foo-fn is *not* defined inside bar-pkg. The documentation
also doesn't say that it has to be that way.

So I was just pleasantly surprised that that did the right thing. I looked
at src/eval.c to confirm if that was the case (that it didn't matter if
foo-fn was or wasn't inside bar-pkg).. but I don't understand what's going
on in there (don't understand C).

Can someone confirm?
-- 

Kaushal Modi


             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-06 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-06 18:55 Kaushal Modi [this message]
2017-12-06 19:04 ` Basic question about autoload function Drew Adams
2017-12-06 19:14   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-12-08 13:39     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-12-08 18:59       ` Kaushal Modi

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