From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "D. Goel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: defvar vs setqif.. Date: 21 May 2002 09:18:18 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87hel3sn2d.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <87bsbaif6h.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021987253 17898 127.0.0.1 (21 May 2002 13:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17A9ZN-0004eZ-00 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 15:20:53 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17A9np-0005m7-00 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 15:35:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17A9Zj-0001S9-00; Tue, 21 May 2002 09:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ipr-mail.umd.edu ([128.8.86.132]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17A9Wu-0001HW-00; Tue, 21 May 2002 09:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from poynting.umd.edu (root@poynting.umd.edu [128.8.86.100]) by ipr-mail.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12007; Tue, 21 May 2002 09:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from poynting.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by poynting.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA13400; Tue, 21 May 2002 09:18:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from deego@localhost) by poynting.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA05026; Tue, 21 May 2002 09:18:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: poynting.umd.edu: deego set sender to deego@glue.umd.edu using -f Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <87bsbaif6h.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4240 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4240 > `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 --