From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: smerge fix
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:11:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17kezs-0008KT-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzq3csx1dn8.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (message from Dave Love on 29 Aug 2002 23:52:27 +0100)
> The easiest thing to do is to say that simple (defvar foo)
> does not count as a definition.
When this came up before, you said that should not be done. I think
you said that construct was intentionally used to declare variables
per se.
Yes, occasionally it is, but no great harm will result from this
change. It only means that those definitions won't be recognized by
certain Emacs features. You can correct it by changing the definition
to provide a value.
There is no harm in providing an initial value, and a real definition
really ought to provide a doc string.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-30 6:11 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <rzqy9b0cd0u.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>
2002-08-24 2:32 ` smerge fix Richard Stallman
2002-08-29 22:52 ` Dave Love
2002-08-30 6:11 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-08-31 17:40 ` Dave Love
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