RE: [External] : Declaring functions after provide

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > > > > I have a file that contains (provide 'tema) at the end. What
> will
> > > > > happen if I add more function after the aforementioned clause ?
> > > >
> > > > Nothing.
> > >
> > > Provided I do not use autoloads and the provide statement is not at
> the
> > > end, right ?
> >
> > Irrelevant. When code `require's the feature, the library with the`
> provide' is loaded.
> > Period.
> > ___
> >
> > The only connection with autoload is this, from
> > (elisp) `Named Features':
> >
> > When a file is loaded to satisfy an autoload, and it stops due
> > to an error in the evaluation of its contents, any function
> > definitions or ‘provide’ calls that occurred during the load
> > are undone.
> 
> Had thought that they won't be recognized as part of the feature
> until the entire file is loaded.

That's correct.  `require' loads the entire library/file.
If the load doesn't raise an error then everything in
the file is loaded.  If it does raise an error then
nothing in the file is loaded.

The granularity of a feature (or a subfeature) is a file,
nothing smaller, because the granularity of loading is a
file, nothing smaller. (Loading can load multiple files,
of course.)

Read the doc I pointed you to, if you haven't already.
The first sentence tells you that "`provide' and
`require' are for loading files".