Re: use-package.el -> Emacs core

[Nicolas Richard]

address@hidden (João Távora) writes:

>>   (unless
>>       (fboundp 'foo-a)
>>     (autoload #'foo-a "foo" nil t))
>
> According to the `autoload' docstring:
>
>     If FUNCTION is already defined other than as an autoload,
>     this does nothing and returns nil.


IIRC in the above snippet (from the expansion of a use-package
instance), `fboundp' is mostly used as `autoloadp' to avoid overwriting
existing autloads (I guess autloadp wasn't used because it takes an
OBJECT as argument instead of a symbol).

-- 
Nico.