From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defvar'ing constants
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:31:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DlyaG-000481-MB@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b05062320549d539e2@mail.gmail.com> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:54:41 +0200)
For consistency:
(defvar CONSTANT) ; should work
(defvar CONSTANT ITS-VALUE) ; should work
(defvar CONSTANT OTHER-VALUE) ; should fail
I think it is more consistent to make them all errors.
defvar should not be used on these symbols.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-25 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-24 3:54 defvar'ing constants Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-25 0:31 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-06-25 4:14 ` Jay Belanger
2005-06-25 13:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-25 21:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-26 2:28 ` Jay Belanger
2005-08-01 1:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-08-01 16:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-25 12:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 5:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-28 7:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 21:29 ` Richard M. Stallman
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