Re: Release of CC Mode 5.31

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:43:13 -0500
> 
> When the byte-compiler sees a `require', and the corresponding .elc file is
> older than the corresponding .el file, it should load the .el file.

By this very logic, when you (load "foo")---after all, `load' and
`require' are very similar---Emacs should load foo.el if it is newer
than foo.elc.  And yet we don't do that, and I think for a very good
reason.