From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13021: 24.2.90; compile eval-after-load form Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:27:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87624p4vjd@ch.ristopher.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354163303 1214 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2012 04:28:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Heerdegen To: 13021@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 29 05:28:35 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TdvjZ-0002kC-Dy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:28:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59143 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdvjN-0006rx-MK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:28:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52744) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdvjK-0006ra-KF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:28:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdvjJ-0005Kj-Ho for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:28:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdvjJ-0005Ke-EW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:28:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TdvlC-0003Ck-Pi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:30:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13021 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.135416338212266 (code B ref -1); Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Nov 2012 04:29:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44419 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdvkr-0003Bm-Jv for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47765) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdvkn-0003Be-Rw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:29:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdvit-00059m-8I for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]:40451) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdvit-00059a-4z for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdvis-0006pS-7q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdvir-00055G-4i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:27:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:44816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdvir-000556-0k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:27:37 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ai0FAG6Zu09FxKh9/2dsb2JhbABEsEiDSYEIghUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDYhABboJjSaDHgOIQppxgViDBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="208722462" Original-Received: from 69-196-168-125.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.168.125]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 28 Nov 2012 23:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BA9BD58B5B; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:27:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87624p4vjd@ch.ristopher.com> (Christopher Schmidt's message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:05:56 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67576 Archived-At: > I think it is a good idea to compile the form that is passed to > eval-after-load. I agree. More to the point, I think it should be a macro so you don't need to wrap the code in '(progn ...). But changing it to a macro would not be backward compatible (you can convert a macro to a function, like I did recently for kbd, but not other way around). I learned this when I tried to convert .... eval-after-load ;-) many years ago. IOW, I'm open to introducing a replacement for eval-after-load which would be a macro, but under another name. Stefan