Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 012487b: * lisp/display-line-numbers.el (display-line-numbers-type): Autoload it.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:02:29 -0400
> 
> > I'd need first to better understand the problem and its proposed
> > solutions.  How can you expect me to make up my mind about this
> > without at least that much?  As of now, I don't understand well enough
> > the choice I have; without that, Michael's code looks to me as a
> > perfectly valid solution for a real problems, and I see no reason to
> > look for an alternative.
> 
> As far as I know, there was no "real problem".  There was
> only a byte-compiler warning.  He chose to silence it with an
> `autoload', because he thought the warning was real.
> Glenn pointed out that a simple defvar to silence the byte-compiler
> was sufficient, because the warning was spurious.

We are miscommunicating.  By "the problem" I meant the reason(s) why
autoloading a defcustom should be considered undesirable, and by
"proposed solutions" the alternatives for making sure a defcustom'd
variable is defined when it is needed.