From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62608 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: use of (defvar ) Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:02:31 +0200 Message-ID: <85vetij18o.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87lkuhdsyb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144591373 443 80.91.229.2 (9 Apr 2006 14:02:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 14:02:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 09 16:02:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSaV8-0005nl-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:02:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSaV7-0006aL-NJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FSaUw-0006aF-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FSaUv-0006a3-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSaUv-0006a0-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FSaZL-0007Tt-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FSaUr-0005R2-8l; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0CA631C3DB49; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 16:02:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Dave Love In-Reply-To: (Dave Love's message of "Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:56:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52558 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62608 Archived-At: Dave Love writes: > Actually, such usage was fixed widely in Emacs 21 because it caused > trouble -- try to test a change by unloading a feature and render > your session unusable. Unloading features is so unreliable in Emacs 21 that there is little point in accommodating it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum