From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About features
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:48:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51371EE4.7030903@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51371587.7000104@gmail.com>
Am 06.03.2013 11:08, schrieb Xue Fuqiao:
> In (info "(elisp) Coding Conventions"):
>
> * Put a call to `provide' at the end of each separate Lisp file.
> *Note Named Features::.
>
> * If a file requires certain other Lisp programs to be loaded
> beforehand, then the comments at the beginning of the file should
> say so. Also, use `require' to make sure they are loaded. *Note
> Named Features::.
>
> Why should we use `provide' and `require'? Is `load'/`load-library'/`load-file' enough? Thanks.
>
IMHO `provide' delivers a kind of city-map with street-names, which exists, before you will visit a street.
Also require, before you a looking for the location of a certain building, checks if the
street-in-my-example exists.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 10:08 About features Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-06 10:48 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2013-03-06 14:28 ` Kevin Rodgers
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2013-03-06 10:42 ` Barry Margolin
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2013-03-06 22:21 Xue Fuqiao
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2013-03-06 23:55 ` Barry Margolin
2013-03-07 12:47 Xue Fuqiao
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