From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can url-show-status be void when (featurep 'url-vars) is t?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:21:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sk43en7t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvpqz83ucy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> message_with_string ("Warning: defvar ignored because %s is
>>> let-bound",
>>> SYMBOL_NAME (sym), 1);
>
>> Thanks, but should not that be an error?
>
> Feel free to turn it into an error: I think that's what it *should* do,
> but backward compatibility means we should accept it.
I don't think we should bother all too much about preserving
compatibility to what never was anything but an error.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-01 6:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-27 0:32 How can url-show-status be void when (featurep 'url-vars) is t? Lennart Borgman
2010-06-27 18:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-27 22:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-29 5:45 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-06-29 9:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-01 0:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-01 6:21 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-06-27 18:13 ` Chong Yidong
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