[R21.4R21.5] `defclass' and `defmethod' autoloads

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Nov 5 15:24:54 EST 2007


Michael Sperber writes:

 > The question is how do you get it there?  And in such a way that it's
 > guaranteed to be there before it gets used.

I was thinking auto-autoloads.  If the relevant package isn't there,
then you're gonna be hosed anyway.

The difference between using a property on symbols vs. a list of
symbols is avoiding the need for a defvar, which often seems unclean
in this kind of application.



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