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bug#7986: 23.2.91; Remove unwise advice from manual
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
bug#7986: 23.2.91; Remove unwise advice from manual |
Date: |
Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:57:11 +0100 |
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
>
> Normally, well-designed Lisp programs should not use
> `eval-after-load'. If you need to examine and set the variables
> defined in another library (those meant for outside use), you can do it
> immediately--there is no need to wait until the library is loaded. If
> you need to call functions defined by that library, you should load the
> library, preferably with `require' (*note Named Features::).
You can't do that. Just imagine you write a library with one single
purpose: doing something after another library is loaded.