Re: pcase is autoloaded?

[Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> This means that people leave it to be autoloaded rather than
>> specifically required. In our case it broke our test badly because our
>> file-system mock was loading pcase.el (which didn't work, surprise!)
>
> I have no idea what problem you bumped into.  I don't know what is your
> "file system mock", nor do I know why loading pcase.el didn't work (or
> why it should come as (no?) surprise).

We were running some tests in which the filesystem functions were
mocked with functions that returned predictable results for the function
under test.

These, of course, failed to load the pcase library when it was
autoloaded.



Nic Ferrier