Re: re-loading an elisp file

[rusi]

On Mar 8, 6:18 am, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/11 1:36 AM, Le Wang wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:32 PM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:rustompm...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> ...
> >     This points out the real problem -- elisp is not a functional
> >     language.
> >     In (pure) functional languages the pattern (for loading) is to 'clean
> >     the slate' and then load. IOW everything -- variable, function, type
> >     -- that was defined in this module is first 'makunbounded' and then
> >     the module is loaded.
>
> >     It would certainly be worthwhile to have such a feature in emacs.  I
> >     guess its not easy to do unless one has available the pair-list of the
> >     form: ((var defined-in-file)...).
> >     Another problem that would probably muddy the waters are macros...
>
> Does M-x unload-feature meet the goals?

Thanks -- looks interesting.
But a first glance at it shows that it uses unload-function-defs-list
and that is nil.
Guess it must get populated at the appropriate time.  When?