From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Another bug with the macro counter Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:36:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200410210107.i9L176B10842@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200410300238.i9U2cOD02290@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200410300327.i9U3RWW02355@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200410301419.i9UEJr002854@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099247887 7984 80.91.229.6 (31 Oct 2004 18:38:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 31 19:37:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1COKaP-0004ed-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:37:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1COKiN-0006FJ-HW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:46:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1COKh4-0005Jx-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:44:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1COKh0-0005Gy-KQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:44:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1COKh0-0005GR-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:44:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1COKYu-0005IK-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:36:20 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1COKXq-0006pM-Ey; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:35:14 -0500 Original-To: Stefan In-Reply-To: (Stefan's message of "Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:05:34 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29235 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29235 Stefan writes: >> Last time I looked, defvar had an effect at run time, namely binding >> the variable to NIL if yet unbound. > > (defvar foo) has never done that AFAIK. Mea culpa. Is there any intended effect of (defvar foo) then apart from silencing the byte compiler? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum