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Autoloads behave differently in Guile ≥ 2.9.7

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From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38895-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38895: Autoloads behave differently in Guile
 ≥ 2.9.7
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:23:55 +0100

On Fri 03 Jan 2020 16:56, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> It seems that since 2.9.7, autoloads have to specify exactly all the
> bindings of the autoloaded module that the user will ever reference.
> Bindings that are omitted from the #:autoload clause remain unbound:

Indeed.  This was an unintentional change, in the sense that I thought
that the previous behavior was to only import the referenced bindings.
As discussed on IRC we decided to leave it with the new behavior, add a
NEWS entry, and we can roll back if it's really a pain to people.
Thanks for finding the issue!

Andy

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