Re: Use (eval-when-compile 'treesit) to save us from writing declare-function forms

[Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>]

On 09/12/2024 04:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I thought eval-when-compile is more of a “include if compiling” macro, should’ve checked 🙂
>>
>> We can also go with Dmitry’s idea, and just define all the functions in
>> treesit.el if Emacs is not built with tree-sitter. We can detect that with
>> treesit-available-p.
> I haven't really thought about it, so I don't have a strong opinion.
> AFAICT your proposal should work fine even if you remove the
> `eval-when-compile` wrappers to which I objected.  🙂

It seems to me that, having taken than route, we would recommend every

   (require 'treesit)

to be accompanied by

   (treesit-declare-c-functions)

...or the familiar declare-function list, of course.

And the same would also be true for transitive dependencies (so, both 
c-ts-common and c-ts-mode, even though otherwise the latter could drop 
the (require 'treesit) form).