From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 16810@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16810: 24.3.50; `with-eval-after-load'
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:07:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0SSF8po683_qiPo=bifT5DyvLTQ2ShRd=JAfjLMmUhFY4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecf9f27c-44b5-49b5-b9da-708a4d39f5c4@default>
Some brief comments.
> The main difference I can see, based on the available doc, is that
> the macro evaluates the BODY "*each time* LIBRARY is loaded". Is
> that considered "better behaved"? Why?
Docstring for eval-after-load says:
If a matching file is loaded again, form will be evaluated again.
so how is that different?
> Other, obvious differences, which I can hardly imagine to constitute
> "better" behavior and so call for introducing this macro, let alone
> replacing `eval-after-load' with it, are (a) that it is a macro, so
> you do not need to quote its arg
To me, that's a big difference which makes the macro much "better". YMMV.
> 2. The doc string is not helpful enough.
Agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-19 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-19 17:00 bug#16810: 24.3.50; `with-eval-after-load' Drew Adams
2014-02-19 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-19 19:07 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2014-02-19 19:31 ` Drew Adams
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