Re: Is (provide 'foo) at the start good or bad?

[Leo]

On 2009-06-11 13:56 +0100, William Xu wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I got a problem while configuring ffap.  I have this in my .emacs: 
>
>  (eval-after-load 'ffap
>    '(progn
>       (setq ffap-c-path (cons "../inc" ffap-c-path))))
>
> And when I M-x ffap, it will complain that ffap-c-path is not defined.
> I figured it out it is due to (provide 'ffap) at the very start of
> ffap.el.  The easist solution is changing it to: 
>
>  (eval-after-load "ffap"
>    ...  Then it will depend on loading of the file, not just the
> feature. But I always like to depend on the feature(at least typing
> one less char).  So what is the benefit of providing it at the very
> start? 

I have run into this problem before. I prefer putting provide at the end
of the file.

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