Is this a proper Emacs (24.3.2) lisp style to load user .el files from .emacs?

Question

I have several .el files within my "~/.emacs.d" directory and I added the following lines to my .emacs file to load them at startup:

(let ((base "~/.emacs.d/")
      (files '("user.el" "erlang.el" "sbcl-slime.el"))
      (bfload (lambda (file) (load (expand-file-name (concat base file))))))
   (mapcar bfload files))

It works, but is this proper Emacs Lisp style? How can this be improved, please?

Answer 1

First, don't put your .el files directly into ~/.emacs.d (Emacs puts various files in there, and they're not expected to be Elisp packages). You can put them into ~/.emacs.d/pkgs for example, instead.

How 'bout:

(dolist (file '("user.el" "erlang.el" "sbcl-slime.el"))
  (load (expand-file-name file "~/.emacs.d/pkgs"))