Re: pcase is autoloaded?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> This means that people leave it to be autoloaded rather than
>>> specifically required. In our case it broke our test badly because our
>>> file-system mock was loading pcase.el (which didn't work, surprise!)
>> I have no idea what problem you bumped into.  I don't know what is your
>> "file system mock", nor do I know why loading pcase.el didn't work (or
>> why it should come as (no?) surprise).
> We were running some tests in which the filesystem functions were
> mocked with functions that returned predictable results for the function
> under test.
> These, of course, failed to load the pcase library when it was
> autoloaded.

I have no idea why you say "of course".  And I see no connection between
`pcase' and your mockup.  What's special about pcase, as opposed to
other autoloaded functions/macros?


        Stefan