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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: when to call provide, first or last?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:25:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0ST3rmY0TuPW63uA2M+FzKDr0M2oWDsa3BuyxSrzm_uRww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM=K+iqM80cqiGqJAZ1=KfvKbiJXYD58ub+X2-O-VUECgEfKgg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 14:08, Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com> wrote:

>> What happens next?  You have broken code, and you're either looking at the
>> backtrace or you get a ding.  How is this a problem?

The problem is that you can miss the error, and also that (require
'my-feature) will "work" afterwards.

It's better to put it at the end and be sure that having the feature
means that everything went OK.

    Juanma



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-27 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27 12:47 when to call provide, first or last? Le Wang
2012-02-27 12:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-27 13:09   ` Le Wang
2012-02-27 13:25     ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2012-02-27 13:32       ` Le Wang
2012-02-27 13:44         ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-27 13:57           ` Le Wang
2012-02-27 14:05             ` Drew Adams
2012-02-27 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-27 13:42   ` Le Wang
2012-02-27 14:25     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-27 15:08     ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-02-27 15:46       ` Le Wang

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