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do-after-load-evaluation
From: |
Noah Friedman |
Subject: |
do-after-load-evaluation |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:22:34 -0700 (PDT) |
The following change:
2006-05-24 Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
* lread.c (Vafter_load_alist): doc-string: state that an element
now has a regexp to match file names, not a file name as such.
breaks backward compatibility because now the after-load forms for "foo"
will be evaluated when "foobar" is loaded.
This is not backward compatible and it breaks things in a bad way, because
lots of packages have a common prefix, and it's not really possible to have
the same alist values for all versions of emacs.
If there were some new syntax for regexp members, e.g.
((:re "regexp") forms...)
then an assoc in older versions of emacs won't match and the new syntax
won't confuse them.
So I propose making that change.
Besides that, the existing implementation looks only halfway finished to
me. Why does Fprovide still use the old hardcoded Fassq+Fprogn evaluation
method? It should call do-after-load-evaluation too and that function
should do the right thing for symbols.
- do-after-load-evaluation,
Noah Friedman <=