Re: curious why private variables are rare

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

discoverd a possible bug in 27 with privte vriables.

in the following c-h f does not take you to the cl-defun.

(let (private-alist
      (unique-string
       (format "%s" (gensym "cleandiff-unify--xyzzy--"))))
  (define-key cleandiff-mode-map "U" 'cleandiff-unify)
  ;; this code works but possibly needs improving
  ;; c-h f fails to go to the correct location goes to bob
  (cl-defun cleandiff-unify
      ;; actually consider log 4
      (arg &aux (prefix (cond
                          ((= arg 1) 'usual)
                          ((= arg 4) 'extra)
                          ((= arg 16) 'clear)
                          ((= arg 64) 'update))))


On 11/21/22, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>
>> warnings [...] unknown function
>
> Yes, but as you know, shut it up with `declare-function', e.g.
>
>   (declare-function australian-survivor nil)
>
> --
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