From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defvaralias
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 11:11:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871x8jgjg7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505070132.j471WEV20931@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Fri, 6 May 2005 20:32:14 -0500 (CDT)")
> (defvar var2 "DOC2")
> (defvaralias 'var1 'var2)
> Of course, but I did a prior (defvar var1 "DOC1") to give var1 a
> docstring. Apart from that the (defvar var1 "DOC1") is really bad. A
> defvaralias form, like a defalias form, constitutes a definition and
> one should not define var1 twice with different definitions. But how
> else do I give var1 a prior docstring other than manually manipulating
> the variable-documentation property of var1 before doing the
> defvaralias, which I should not be doing either?
What's wrong with (defvaralias 'var1 'var2 "var1 docstring") ?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-07 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-06 1:42 defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-06 2:01 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-06 4:30 ` defvaralias Nick Roberts
2005-05-06 14:56 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-07 1:19 ` defvaralias Nick Roberts
2005-05-07 1:32 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-07 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-05-07 15:33 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-07 15:39 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-07 18:35 ` defvaralias Richard Stallman
2005-05-06 15:43 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-06 18:51 ` defvaralias Richard Stallman
2005-05-06 22:39 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-07 18:35 ` defvaralias Richard Stallman
2005-05-07 18:44 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-07 19:31 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-07 20:09 ` defvaralias Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-07 20:54 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-07 20:04 ` defvaralias Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-08 16:11 ` defvaralias Richard Stallman
2005-05-08 16:41 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-07 9:26 ` defvaralias Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-28 1:25 defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-28 2:08 ` defvaralias Miles Bader
2003-10-28 2:29 ` defvaralias Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-29 19:02 ` defvaralias Richard Stallman
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