[Q] commit: No doc special-case for autoloads; rely on on #'symbol-file instead.

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu Apr 10 04:52:02 EDT 2008


Aidan Kehoe writes:

 >  > Does #'symbol-file tell you it's an autoloaded symbol?
 > 
 > No, the description constructed by describe-function-1 does.

OK.  You're right, your patch is definitely an improvement.

Wording the commit comment "Make `describe-function-1' give autoload
status and load file exactly once" or so would make the intent plain.

 >   `loop' is an autoloaded Lisp macro
 >     -- loaded from "/usr/local/share/xemacs-21.5-b28/lisp/cl-macs.elc"

As long as I'm here ... I would prefer to have "loaded" become "will
load" in the case of an autoload.  And maybe it would be less
ambiguous to make the first line "`loop' is an /autoloading/ Lisp
macro".



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