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Re: loading message.el for two small functions
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: loading message.el for two small functions |
Date: |
04 Dec 2001 01:01:41 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
Bill Wohler <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > * mail/smtpmail.el: Use with-current-buffer.
> > (message-make-date, message-make-message-id): Autoload when needed.
> >
> > message.el is almost 5000 lines. It is very inefficient to load that
> > file just to get these two small functions. Would you please copy and
> > rename the functions instead?
>
> <soapbox>
>
> I don't know how much time I've spent looking for and fixing bugs in
> code that was fixed in cut-and-pasted code elsewhere. Or how many
> bugs I've seen pop up that were seemingly fixed before. Programmers
> should have a finger cut off every time they cut and paste.
>
And IMO this will get worse with the planned implementation of lexical
binding - if someone copies code from a file with lexical binding to a file
with dynamic binding (or vice versa).
Re: loading message.el for two small functions, Kai Großjohann, 2001/12/04
Re: loading message.el for two small functions, Per Abrahamsen, 2001/12/04