Re: [PATCH] emacs: Add completions for '--type' option of 'refresh' popup.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2015-10-29 23:14 +0300) wrote:

[...]

>> You could use #:autoload, but only for ‘%updaters’ because
>> ‘upstream-updater-name’ is a macro so it needs to be available at
>> expansion time.
>
> I looked at (info "(guile) Using Guile Modules") and it has the following:
>
>           An autoload is a good way to put off loading a big module
>           until it’s really needed, for instance for faster startup or
>           if it will only be needed in certain circumstances.
>
>           address@hidden can do a similar thing (see Using Guile Modules), but
>           in that case an address@hidden form must be written every time a 
> binding
>           from the module is used.
>
> To me it sounds like address@hidden does the same thing as ‘#:autoload’, no?

I guess I was confused.  A simple example confirms what the manual
explains:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guild compile t.scm
wrote `/home/ludo/.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/home/ludo/src/guix/t.scm.go'
$ guile t.scm
$ cat t.scm
(define (foo)
  (@ (asdfasdfa) sdfsf))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> Also #:autoload should be used inside (define-module ...), but
> ‘guix-main.scm’ does not define a module.

Oh, right, I had overlooked that.

So yes, you can go ahead with your initial approach.

Thanks, and sorry for the confusion!

Ludo’.