From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 7986@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7986: 23.2.91; Remove unwise advice from manual
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:57:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimso0qhMafK5SeZn6bcLnerySEtOxn7gueaQRSH@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vxv1ivm.fsf@sc3d.org>
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
>
> Normally, well-designed Lisp programs should not use
> `eval-after-load'. If you need to examine and set the variables
> defined in another library (those meant for outside use), you can do it
> immediately--there is no need to wait until the library is loaded. If
> you need to call functions defined by that library, you should load the
> library, preferably with `require' (*note Named Features::).
You can't do that. Just imagine you write a library with one single
purpose: doing something after another library is loaded.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-04 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-04 23:26 bug#7986: 23.2.91; Remove unwise advice from manual Reuben Thomas
2011-02-04 23:57 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-02-04 23:59 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-02-09 0:28 ` Chong Yidong
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