Re: [External] : Re: Running emacs without any customisation

[Michael Heerdegen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> [a lot :-)]

Yes, sure, like baroque counterpoint rules not always respected even by
Bach himself.

The decision of what side effects are surprising or "an error" is
subjective.  OTOH, it's probably not easy to find good examples for
acceptable not totally trivial loading side effects, so the rule is a
good one generally, and it's good to speak it out clearly, because
people not respecting it is by far the bigger problem, and people who
know what they are doing know what they are doing anyway.

Michael.