From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: 13699@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13699: 24.2.93; multiple defcustoms for one variable
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:54:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tl4nhhozq6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20762.52990.622931.236174@lukas.physics.niu.edu> (Roland Winkler's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:23:42 -0600")
"Roland Winkler" wrote:
> On Tue Feb 12 2013 Glenn Morris wrote:
>> Multiple defcustoms (or defvars) for the same variable are bugs,
>
> Sure! -- But debugging such a situation is currently more difficult
> than it could be. That's really the point I wanted to make.
It is many, many times more likely that a package will mistakenly change
the value of a variable with setq than with defcustom.
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2013-02-12 19:57 bug#13699: 24.2.93; multiple defcustoms for one variable Roland Winkler
2013-02-12 23:10 ` Glenn Morris
2013-02-12 23:23 ` Roland Winkler
2013-02-12 23:54 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
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