From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings while splitting elisp source files Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:59:11 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87k3oynjc0.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87sj3mp048.fsf@gmail.com> <87sj3mnl5v.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87mwtuoy9p.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364097463 21861 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2013 03:57:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:57:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 24 04:58:10 2013 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 1UJc4O-0000HT-VK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:58:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJc41-0000d1-Ex for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:57:45 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net fs0+SDWnOki+dlTun+2ZsgOClHbsV5BdZNOmjpjXuVE0OXFU54 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTlhMjAwMDJhY2RjMmEyOTllOGFiNGZjYWRhY2QzNWZjN2FjODlmNg== sha1:ia8sxKsHb4BHHMdfnuX3rCwHpOU= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197429 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:55:14 -0400 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:89709 Archived-At: Jay Belanger writes: >>>> Is there a sane way to split the source of an elisp file >>>> while avoiding the 'reference to free variable' warnings >>>> when byte-compiling? >>>> >>>> The problem arises when a variable defined in one file >>>> is used in another. How does one avoid those errors? >>> >>> You can put >>> (defvar variable-name) >>> in the other file. >> >> Nope. Because then the initialization depends on the order of loading >> the files. > > If there is no initial value in the defvar, then the only thing the > defvar does is quiet the compiler. Right. I was confused. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.