Re: [COMMIT] Autoload within #'keymapp, as documented.

 Ar an triú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > Aidan Kehoe writes:
 > 
 >  > I’d welcome discussion on this.
 > 
 > What's to discuss?  AFAICS your patch fixes a bug.  Autoloads are
 > supposed to be transparent to callers.  If something that autoloads
 > would be keymapp after loading, it should be keymapp even though it
 > hasn't been loaded yet.

Good!

An alternative would be what #'functionp does, which is return t for
autoload objects without loading them. But, it’s currently documented as
autoloading and that’s what the other code assumes.

 > If you think there may be applications that want to know if something
 > is an autoload, we could defun #'autoloadp.
 > 
 >  > src/ChangeLog addition:
 >  > 
 >  > 2014-07-02  Aidan Kehoe  <[email protected]>
 >  > 
 >  > 	* keymap.c (Fkeymapp):
 >  > 	Autoload within this, as documented. Our callers are not prepared
 >  > 	to do the intelligent thing if a symbol that is fboundp to an
 >  > 	autoloaded keymap, is not itself #'keymapp.

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