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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Warnings about keymaps
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:10:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xhab0x736m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv4or9l6sl.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> The bug can be seen more directly by byte-compiling the file below:
>
>    (defconst foo nil)
>    (defvar foo nil)
>
> Looks like the "assignment-to-constant" warning should be more
> careful to distinguish defvar from setq.

This seems a fairly nonsensical thing to do, so why shouldn't the
compiler warn about it? The defvar is a best a no-op, at worst a bug
(if you were expecting it to have an effect).




  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11  9:04 Warnings about keymaps Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-11 17:34 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-11 17:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-14 19:10   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2009-09-14 21:46     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-15  2:45       ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-15 13:40         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17  7:32           ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-17 14:02             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-18 22:25               ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-19  0:04                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-19  0:43                 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-15 15:13       ` Richard Stallman

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