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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
Cc: 58801@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58801: [PATCH] Autoload the `calc-eval-error' variable
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:50:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=C4Py912SUR+Uj_jKjjtFoGZBKovbG+LKOqjOpee6G4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735ak6pq7.fsf@rfc20.org> (Matt Armstrong's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:24:00 -0800")

Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> writes:

> Note that in my case I had (require 'calc) in the file that used the
> `calc-eval-error' symbol.  The info docs for calc state that (require
> 'calc) loads nearly everything you need from calc.  I may not understand
> something about the design constraints here, but it seems strange to
> refrain from autoloading this symbol, since (require 'calc) already
> (auto)loads a *lot* of stuff.

So you are saying that if you have a file foo.el, that requires calc,
and then tries to use calc-eval-error variable (documented as part of
the external API), you get a byte-compiler warning?

I agree that this doesn't sound very intuitive.

> My first impression is that adding `defvar' to squash bytecomp warnings
> for symbols in other packages is the wrong default action, and that the
> best idea is for
>
>   (require 'foo)
>
> to provide all symbols 'foo-' that one might need when using the `foo'
> package in the normal way.

So I think we could install your patch.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-24 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-26 17:02 bug#58801: [PATCH] Autoload the `calc-eval-error' variable Matt Armstrong
2022-11-11 13:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-11-15 18:24   ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-15 18:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-24 19:50     ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-11-26 16:58       ` Matt Armstrong
2023-09-07  7:51         ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-05 16:38           ` Stefan Kangas

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