Re: defcustom: changing from defvar - order of execution

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Not only was this common in standard libraries before this
>> century, but it is still common for personal "libraries" -
>> that is, .emacs and its extensions.

>     .emacs and its extensions are not libraries.  Extending the meaning of
>     libraries to things like .emacs makes the word useless.

> OK. What's a better term?

Who needs a better term.  The point is that *libraries* should not do
anything (other than define new feature) when they're loaded and thus, since
.emacs is not a library, this rule of thumb doesn't apply to it.

>  - It happens that personal startup files sometimes evolve into multi-user
> libraries, and these sometimes evolve into standard Emacs libraries.

And they have to change between those stages.


        Stefan