At 09:30 AM 3/4/99 +0100, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> What do you consider fair use of autoloads and what do you consider
> misuse? I don't have strong opinions either way on this. One could
> argue that autoloads are only for the user, ie. for convenience in
> building a .emacs and having M-x some-unloaded-function Do The Right
> Thing.
I think I am currently in the "only for users camp". lisp authors
should be required to make the dependencies explicit as they can be
expected to know more. It surely makes it easier to track for somebody
else reading the code.
But it also means that dependant packages also get pulled in. This is bad
if the dependencies are for features that you never use.
andy