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purpose of (provide 'hashtable-print-readable) in subr.el?
From: |
Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
purpose of (provide 'hashtable-print-readable) in subr.el? |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:04:23 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
This looks odd to me: subr.el end with these lines:
| ;; The following statement ought to be in print.c, but `provide' can't
| ;; be used there.
| ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-08/msg00236.html
| (when (hash-table-p (car (read-from-string
| (prin1-to-string (make-hash-table)))))
| (provide 'hashtable-print-readable))
(Yes, I've read the mentioned thread in emacs-dev.)
What's the purpose of this `provide' call? I've downloaded
emacs-23.4.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org. The only place where
hashtable-print-readable occurs in code (including C) is the above
occurrence in subr.el. And I don't see any reason why third party code
should want to test for such a feature. So, why is it provided at all?
Just curious...
Regards,
Michael.
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