From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: unload-feature questions and thoughts
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:16:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86iregq2gt.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0702050308i5e034e21p230d516fc3071b61@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon\, 5 Feb 2007 12\:08\:28 +0100")
"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2/5/07, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Could you think of something in code or docs that should have
>> prevented the confusion?
>
> I misread the code (I was much more centered in the part about undoing
> defun, provide, etc. and didn't take a closer look to the beginning of
> the function), but I think this piece of docstring is a bit confusing
>
> This function tries to undo modifications made by the package to
> hooks. Packages may define a hook FEATURE-unload-hook that is called
> instead of the normal heuristics for doing this. Such a hook should
> undo all the relevant global state changes that may have been made by
> loading the package or executing functions in it.
>
> because if you miss the "to hooks" (two words), as I did in several
> readings, it seems like it is saying that either you define
> FEATURE-unload-hook, or else it uses "the normal heuristics".
Maybe "the normal heuristics" and "all the relevant global state
changes" are far too much hand-waving: readers will probably
phantasize whatever they would think useful into it.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-05 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-04 18:03 unload-feature questions and thoughts Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-04 18:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-04 19:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-04 19:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05 0:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 7:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05 9:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 9:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05 11:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 11:16 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-02-05 11:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-10 11:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-10 14:52 ` Davis Herring
2007-10-10 16:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-10 17:03 ` Davis Herring
2007-10-10 17:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-10 17:56 ` Davis Herring
2007-10-11 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-11 6:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-11 15:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-12 15:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 17:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-13 6:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-13 10:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-14 16:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 22:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-15 16:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 16:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-16 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-16 8:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-17 5:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 23:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-23 19:27 ` Davis Herring
2007-10-24 8:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-11 16:41 ` Davis Herring
2007-10-12 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-25 21:24 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-28 13:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-10 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-10 21:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 19:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-05 23:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06 17:09 ` Richard Stallman
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