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From: pauld@scenic.wa.com (Paul Barton-Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: require & provide
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Date: 26 Sep 90 16:10:52 GMT
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A little gripe/question about the way these are used by most folks. Typical
syntax is:

(require 'foo)
(provide 'bar)

.... (elisp code for new mode etc.)

Although this is almost always OK (most distributed code tends to work
just fine like this), it seems conceptually wrong - 'bar has not yet
been provided at the point claimed. It seems more appropriate to use

(require 'foo)

... (elisp code)

(provide 'bar)

This way, any other packages that (require 'bar) are not corrupted by,
for instance, terminating a load of bar.el, or the occasional error
whilst loading.

Just a thought - what do YOU think ?

Paul Barton-Davis			<pauld@scenic.wa.com>
ScenicSoft, Inc.			
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