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On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 11:25  PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

> 	   if (nesting > 3)
> 	    error ("Recursive `require' for feature `%s'",
> 		   SDATA (SYMBOL_NAME (feature)));
>
>     This makes the recursive load die in lread.c:Fload (which produces 
> the
>     nicer error).  Fload fails if it tries to load the same file more 
> than
>     3 times.
>
> Thanks.  Please do install it.

Done.  Is the test for recursion in Frequire even necessary?  Would the 
testing in Fload suffice and the code dealing with recursion testing be 
removed?