From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature Request : autoload-form Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:03:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206908296 13197 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 20:18:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "paul r" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 22:18:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jg3zB-0000MV-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:18:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg3yZ-0001tp-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg3yV-0001ru-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg3yT-0001q8-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg3yT-0001q3-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from 206-248-178-205.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.178.205] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg3yP-0001nt-Pp; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 13AA1B40BB; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:03:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (paul r.'s message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:24:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93941 Archived-At: > I think of autoload as a particular case of the general need to > "eval-on-event-then-call". Therefore, I do not see why evaluating a > form is less simple than loading a file. Form evaluation is, indeed, > less limited but I don't see why it should be a disadvantage here. By the way, instead of (autoload ) you can do (defun (&rest args) (apply args)) -- Stefan