Re: newsticker-start: Recursive laod error

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Ulf Jasper <address@hidden> writes:

> `newsticker-running-p' is supposed to be a "public" function.
> (I remember that somebody was asking for that functionality.)
> It is autoloaded for convenience.  If it wasn't autoloaded you'd
> have to check whether newsticker is loaded before checking
> whether it is running.

as a predicate,

  (= 0 (length LIST)) === LIST

this means you can elide `newsticker-running-p' entirely,
and put an autoload cookie on the variable.  the value before
loading (i.e., default value) is nil.

this allows state to be checked (with consistent results ;-)
whether or not newsticker.el is loaded, and reduces the number
of trivial functions by one.  (incf elegance)!

thi