From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: void variable Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:41:15 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200407262041.i6QKfFu15523@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <410353ED.1090107@math.ku.dk> <4104091E.4040007@math.ku.dk> <200407252046.i6PKkFH29813@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090874714 20592 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 20:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsh@math.ku.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 22:45:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BpCLK-0007Gp-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:45:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpCON-0005yh-RE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpCOH-0005yc-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpCO9-0005xF-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpCO9-0005xC-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpCKk-0005xG-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:44:30 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6QKiUuE006719; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:44:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i6QKfFu15523; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:41:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 26 Jul 2004 15:23:01 -0400) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25992 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25992 Stefan Monnier wrote: Maybe we could arrange for defvar to burp a warning if the var is currently let-bound? Just to be sure, I assume you mean a compiler warning? (As opposed to the kind of thing that `define-minor-mode' does.) defvar-ing let-bound variables is OK for autoloaded variables. It is also OK for `(defvar foo)''s that are just there to pacify the compiler. Sincerely, Luc.