Re: do-after-load-evaluation

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:

> Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> writes:
>
>> The following change:
>
>>     2006-05-24  Alan Mackenzie  <acm@muc.de>
>
>>             * lread.c (Vafter_load_alist): doc-string: state that an element
>>             now has a regexp to match file names, not a file name as such.
>>
>> breaks backward compatibility because now the after-load forms for "foo"
>> will be evaluated when "foobar" is loaded.
>
> You should use `eval-after-load' instead of adding to `after-load-alist'
> directly; it builds the following regexp for "foo":
>
>     "\\(\\`\\|/\\)foo\\(\\.elc\\|\\.el\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\'"

Any reason this is not
"\\(\\`\\|/\\)foo\\(\\.elc?\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\'"
instead (should perform better)?  And is there a reason that .elc? is
optional?

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