From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 21563@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:27:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44557.57231.795451.24095@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zheozc1s.fsf@marxist.se>
On Wed Jan 15 2020 Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > Setting or changing the explicit hook value has
> > no effect if the library was already loaded, whereas
> > `(with-)eval-after-load' has an immediate effect in
> > that case. (Sure, the latter could test in its body
> > whether it's loaded and act conditionally...)
>
> Good point. So it seems like load-hooks and eval-after-load are
> slightly different and could both be useful.
What is the benefit of being able to put something into a load-hook
that will be ignored because the feature was already loaded?
Is there a real-world example that can illustrate how this is
useful?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-16 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-25 18:57 bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables Roland Winkler
2020-01-15 19:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-15 20:21 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-15 20:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 0:27 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2020-01-15 22:06 ` Glenn Morris
2020-01-16 0:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 0:24 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-16 0:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 3:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-16 13:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-16 20:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 21:08 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-16 0:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-16 4:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-16 9:07 ` Roland Winkler
2020-04-26 14:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-20 17:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 11:49 ` Mauro Aranda
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