From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: ;;;###autoload declarations Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:35:33 +0200 Message-ID: <877crlt12y.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <91a7W5OWdKtKD4A-ZeZZUeCLNTxNm82hYVDTZ-_uC1JiI1KzGZZVYF4HuUMdxyursZQ-CgIXKRziOKd2FRj9rL_7ADQ7Rjn7gu2CaCgSNA4=@proton.me> <87v8few484.fsf@web.de> <87sfaivxvk.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31019"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:xpfl43Z3TxjHlYM+B9/usm8NlXM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 03 11:21:04 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qGFk0-0007pm-B7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2023 11:21:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qGFjw-0004E8-Io; Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:21:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFGO3-0007wt-A9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFGO1-0003cv-Fd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qFGNl-0002ID-Q3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:50:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:20:59 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144086 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> However, what I can see it fails to address why this is at >> all desirable to do and, assuming it is, in what cases more >> precisely it is useful. > > If you never use anything from some library then it isn't > loaded. That's the idea: load code only if and when you need > it [..] So it isn't loaded automatically, it is loaded when needed? Is that the same as just-in-time or lazy evaluation? Maybe just different context/points of emphasis ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal