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Re: re-loading an elisp file


From: rusi
Subject: Re: re-loading an elisp file
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:01:34 -0800 (PST)
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On Mar 8, 6:57 am, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Ok looked at loadhist.el and find that the list I was earlier asking
for is load-history.

So now if I have thrown some random elisp into a file (no require,
provides) how do I unload it?
I can assoc the file's alist in load-history.  After that??


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