From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaidheeswaran C Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does "lacks a prefix" mean? Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:27 +0530 Message-ID: <559D5983.5080303@gmail.com> References: <1e0ad02f-ca3e-495c-bb85-61f77090d31d@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436377556 24258 80.91.229.3 (8 Jul 2015 17:45:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:45:56 +0000 (UTC) To: BobD , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 08 19:45:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZCssH-0007lp-5i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:11:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCssG-0005Cb-5J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCsrb-00058a-7S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:10:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCsrX-0008MN-Su for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22d]:35793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCsrX-0008ID-E5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: by pactm7 with SMTP id tm7so134877179pac.2 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:10:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:newsgroups:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kpm/j06mxWorSSDLTfzVhe1Fm4rj774xF2rkIdpcrNU=; b=KwilFrjLT19O1Y85ychXsF+PJpVrc4SmoehyO1DtEL+tkEhcGmR2i7BZ6q5HCet7lc TFC6lAFpJvLJR6/d5SwV28h9ygdhzEDEqqzK1lF6JeoOQA0YIM2VAVc0Pfw7euEVeOHF +Oqx+3YNWl8UOmof75NUlcqXmLGmczlm+Fdpq4E4lQnb8jvrv1xYV2wXwgROdorR5L+S fTdV45uWEVJaZzzPXw+cWSmDZScHFpW9sLtA8Piie8IfEmeTHUpS9K9pGZP4q3c8Omkx o2Iv6u8sVSFlGX7/T3tvoudDGt5FzVNoht2UUGKkPLKNBaDjAhq0K3tNECTd59EGlwh0 2XGw== X-Received: by 10.68.113.194 with SMTP id ja2mr22172063pbb.163.1436375418492; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.43.83] ([106.206.141.117]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id qc5sm3125636pab.14.2015.07.08.10.10.15 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:10:17 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <1e0ad02f-ca3e-495c-bb85-61f77090d31d@googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22d X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105536 Archived-At: On Wednesday 08 July 2015 10:02 PM, BobD wrote: > My elisp: > > (defun blabba () > (defvar n 0) > ) > > byte-compile-file yields this: > > In blabba: > test.el:1:8:Warning: global/dynamic var `n' lacks a prefix > > What does my elisp lack? > Other than asking here, where can I learn what "lacks a prefix" means? > > See bullet 2 under http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Coding-Conventions.html