From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About features
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:28:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kh7jno$fcp$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51371587.7000104@gmail.com>
On 3/6/13 3:08 AM, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
> In (info "(elisp) Coding Conventions"):
>
> * Put a call to `provide' at the end of each separate Lisp file.
> *Note Named Features::.
>
> * If a file requires certain other Lisp programs to be loaded
> beforehand, then the comments at the beginning of the file should
> say so. Also, use `require' to make sure they are loaded. *Note
> Named Features::.
>
> Why should we use `provide' and `require'? Is `load'/`load-library'/`load-file'
> enough? Thanks.
`provide' allows you to `require' unconditionally, but the library/file will
only be loaded if necessary.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-06 14:28 UTC|newest]
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2013-03-06 10:08 About features Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-06 10:48 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-06 14:28 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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2013-03-06 10:42 ` Barry Margolin
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2013-03-06 22:21 Xue Fuqiao
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2013-03-06 23:55 ` Barry Margolin
2013-03-07 12:47 Xue Fuqiao
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