From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is (provide 'foo) at the start good or bad?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:36:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090612083609.GA2953@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5xqw0s8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Hi, Stephen,
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 01:09:43PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Leo writes:
> > > one less char). So what is the benefit of providing it at the
> > > very start?
> > I have run into this problem before. I prefer putting provide at the
> > end of the file.
> Putting the provide form at the beginning allows mutually recursive
> requires to succeed. I also prefer it as a matter of style, sort of
> serving as a `declare-package'.
Putting `provide' at the end of the file means you've actually loaded
the file when the provision is done. Thus if the load crashes (very
common when you're developing), you don't have a spurious provided
symbol.
Like in lots of things, there's no one Right Way to do it.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-12 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 12:56 Is (provide 'foo) at the start good or bad? William Xu
2009-06-11 17:01 ` Leo
2009-06-12 4:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-12 5:01 ` William Xu
2009-06-12 10:02 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-06-12 10:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-12 15:15 ` William Xu
2009-06-12 8:36 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2009-06-12 10:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-12 23:00 ` Davis Herring
2009-06-13 12:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-14 19:30 ` Davis Herring
2009-06-15 3:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-15 18:20 ` Davis Herring
2009-06-16 3:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-12 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
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