Re: use of (defvar <foo>)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> writes:

>> | The only effect of a defvar with no initial value
>> | is to silence the compiler.  So it is superfluous
>> | to put it inside eval-when-compile.
>> `----
>
> That's certainly not true in Emacs 21:

If Emacs 21 has screwed this up, then Emacs 21 should be fixed, in my
opinion.

If you have to wrap every single one-argument defvar with
`eval-when-compile', then single-argument defvars should do that
itself automatically.

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