From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7986: 23.2.91; Remove unwise advice from manual Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:57:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: <878vxv1ivm.fsf@sc3d.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296864367 16212 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2011 00:06:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7986@debbugs.gnu.org To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 05 01:06:02 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PlVf7-00084H-MP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:06:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51287 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PlVf7-0006VB-2P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bJbbfr49j202fVd20ovPcVSsHMs80e/vxcDKtYgveqWIQY7logU1JE9p3WqtecjJdE 4OLaj47+5aGgM3Nee1Qx0hdMaMY+XQB15DbVidM67O17YmW+CuiX0tSTHo8yuwriCwsz fhp5bs53b1qjcJStXA0YCBmnuNHTi+fEc0S+Q= Original-Received: by 10.213.29.77 with SMTP id p13mr3523112ebc.2.1296863851287; Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:57:31 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.13.20 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:57:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <878vxv1ivm.fsf@sc3d.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:50:03 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43955 Archived-At: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > =C2=A0 Normally, well-designed Lisp programs should not use > `eval-after-load'. =C2=A0If 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. =C2=A0= 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.