Re: autoload and auto-compression-mode

[Luc Teirlinck]

Juri Linkov wrote:

   I think `file representation suffix' is an unclear term.  There are such
   file representations are text, image, unibyte, literal, hex dump, etc.
   And using this term in the context of `load' is very confusing.
   The purpose of this variable can be mistakenly interpreted as specifying
   what file representation `load' uses.

In practice, `load-file-rep-suffixes' handles compressed
representations of a file if and only if Auto Compression mode is
enabled.  Theoretically, it could be used to let load handle other
forms of a file too, but I could not really immediately think of which
ones, since in the context of load we are talking exclusively about
Elisp files.  I would not immediately see a need to support loading,
say, encrypted Lisp files.

Sincerely,

Luc.