Re: Emacs Modular Configuration: the preferable way.

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

>> If it is string to begin with and the end result is
>> a string one should be able to use string functions to
>> "assemble" it.
>
> Yet `lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el` doesn't use this strategy
> in order to transform the string found in `foo.el` into the
> string we want in `foo.elc`.

It doesn't?

~/src/emacs-28.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el lines 182-186:

    (setq filename (file-name-sans-versions
                    (byte-compiler-base-file-name filename)))
    (cond ((string-match emacs-lisp-file-regexp filename)
           (concat (substring filename 0 (match-beginning 0)) ".elc"))
          (t (concat filename ".elc")))))

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