From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible defvar bug Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:29:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87d2vxr8h6.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361316613 10242 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2013 23:30:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 00:30:35 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U7wdu-0000Rf-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:30:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7wdZ-0007bD-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:30:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45503) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7wdT-0007Wt-BE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7wdD-0004iL-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7wdD-0004iC-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:29:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7wdC-0003hM-Bn; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:29:50 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:28:32 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157177 Archived-At: defvar already gives a message for it (but defcustom doesn't). 1. defcustom could handle it like defvar. 2. It could be an error rather than a mere message. 3. If we want to do a bit of work, we could arrange for the error to occur at the start of loading of the file, so the file would not be partly loaded when the error happens. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call