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From: "D. Goel" <deego@glue.umd.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defvar vs setqif..
Date: 21 May 2002 09:18:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ap3off9d4h1.fsf@poynting.umd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bsbaif6h.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp>


> `defvar' without an initializer _never_ binds or sets the variable.

yeah i was confused.. i knew this was true for common-lisp..  But
don't know why i assumed that if 'foo is unbounded, then (defvar foo)
binds it to nil.  i just checked the doc and that's untrue..

> In fact it shouldn't affect the variable at all, only
> meta-information about the variable.

thanks. 


D				   <http://www.glue.umd.edu/~deego/>
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      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-21 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-19 20:44 defvar vs setqif D. Goel
2002-05-19 20:59 ` Colin Walters
2002-05-20  0:05   ` Miles Bader
2002-05-20 19:08   ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 19:41     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-20 19:47       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-21 13:13         ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 20:05     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-20 21:33   ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-20  0:03 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-20 19:00   ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 19:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-20 19:40       ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 23:15     ` Miles Bader
2002-05-21 13:18       ` D. Goel [this message]

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