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Subject: Re: Circular dependencies between libraries - what to do?
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Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>
>> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> (1) how to use require without introducing circular
>>> dependencies?
>>
>> At the top of a file, put the require:s, e.g.,
>>
>>     (require 'message)
>>     (require 'moggle)
>>
>> Then at the end of the file, put
>>
>>     (provide 'message-my)

You can put the `provide' also at the beginning of the file.

  circ-a.el:
    (provide 'circ-a)
    (require 'circ-b)

  circ-b.el:
    (provide 'circ-b)
    (require 'circ-a)

works fine.

- Christoph