From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Circular dependencies between libraries - what to do? Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 03:42:59 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87egv5lpek.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87d2aqgf92.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411263931 3076 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2014 01:45:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 01:45:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 21 03:45:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XVWDE-0000Qv-Oe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 03:45:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVWDE-0001IZ-BG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 21:45:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qaNJImSmCpui6Hl1VEJaeWCollc= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207808 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100082 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > You can try to restructure the files, so as to get > rid of the circularity. Yes, if one entity depends on another entity, while that depends on the first, I can't see any other way than making more, smaller entities. And as this is so easy, why consider something else? Aside from solving the problem you get a better, more modular design with neater program units which will benefit you (the OP) in other situations as well. By the way, you (the OP) said "this is a library question, not an init file question" (pseudo-quote) - but what is the difference? If an init makes available a bunch of Elisp functions for a specific purpose, how is that not a library? -- underground experts united