From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: use of (defvar <foo>)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:31:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85bqv881dp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzqu09059e8.fsf@loveshack.ukfsn.org> (Dave Love's message of "Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:06:55 +0100")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> writes:
> If the effect of the defvar on load-history has been redefined as a
> bug, the eval-when-compile wrapper does avoid a bug, and I don't see
> how it could reasonably be harmful in a future Emacs.
defvar is the main way to inform the system a variable could be bound
dynamically instead of just lexically. Having it omitted on runtime
could lead to hard to find bugs if we change to lexical binding at one
time.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-11 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-06 19:24 Dave Love
2006-04-06 19:58 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-07 11:46 ` Dave Love
2006-04-07 19:07 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-07 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-07 23:48 ` Bill Wohler
2006-04-09 13:56 ` Dave Love
2006-04-09 14:02 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-11 16:45 ` Dave Love
2006-04-10 0:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-11 17:06 ` Dave Love
2006-04-11 17:31 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-04-13 16:44 ` Dave Love
2006-04-11 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-13 16:51 ` Dave Love
2006-04-08 16:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-09 14:03 ` Dave Love
2006-04-11 6:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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