Re: strange code in ediff-hook.el

[Dan Nicolaescu]

address@hidden (Michael Kifer) writes:

  > >   > I am talking about debugging.  When there are many warnings due to
  > >   > some files not being loaded, it becomes hard to spot real problems.
  > > 
  > > Please explain why won't just using `require' work? (or 
(eval-when-compile (require )))
  > 
  > Is "require" being used during the compilation?

It is used if you do (eval-when-compile (require 'foo)) or (eval-and-compile 
...)

  > When this code was written, require was definitely not used at compile time.