From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symbol's value as variable is void: defun
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:39:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi4r39iy.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4d2444cf-cca2-49b6-9afa-524aa7d28569@googlegroups.com
Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:
> ;; With the following defun in effect:
>
> (defun load-file-most-recent (file)
> ;;(setq file (concat (car load-path) "/" file))
> (assert (string-match "\\.el$" file))
> (setq other (substring file 0 (match-beginning 0)))
> (setq other (concat other ".elc"))
> (cond
> ((and (file-exists-p file) (file-exists-p other))
> (setq date-modified-file (nth 5 (file-attributes file)))
> (setq date-modified-other (nth 5 (file-attributes other)))
> (setq file-older-than-other-p
> (if (>= (nth 0 date-modified-file) (nth 0 date-modified-other))
> (if (>= (nth 1 date-modified-file) (nth 1 date-modified-other))
> (if (>= (nth 2 date-modified-file) (nth 2 date-modified-other))
> t
> nil)
> nil)
> nil))
> (if file-older-than-other-p
> (progn
> (message "loading file %s" file)
> (load-file file))
> (message "loading file %s" other)
> (load-file other))
> )
> ((file-exists-p file)
> (load-file file)
> )
> ((file-exists-p other)
> (load-file other)
> )
> (t
> (assert (not (file-exists-p file)))
> (assert (not (file-exists-p other)))
> (error "Should never happen, file=%s, other=%s" file other))
> )
> )
>
> (load-file-most-recent "~/lisp++-projects/c++2lisp++-stage-1-purge-comments.el")
>
> ;; gives the following diagnostic: Symbol's value as variable is void:
> ;; defun.
>
> Here is the contents of the offending file:
>
> http://davinpearson.com/binaries/c++2lisp++-stage-1-purge-comments.elc
The problem is reported to be in that file and is (as far as I can tell)
unrelated to the code you show above. You'd have to post the source for
that compiler file to more help.
--
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-02 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-02 2:54 Symbol's value as variable is void: defun Davin Pearson
2018-02-02 3:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-02-02 7:50 ` tomas
2018-02-02 8:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-02-02 7:48 ` tomas
2018-02-02 11:39 ` Ben Bacarisse [this message]
2018-02-02 18:10 ` John Mastro
2018-02-05 2:59 ` Davin Pearson
2018-02-05 3:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-02-05 6:39 ` Davin Pearson
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