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 22:29:50 +0530 Message-ID: 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 1436377693 26764 80.91.229.3 (8 Jul 2015 17:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:48:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 08 19:48:08 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 1ZCtNr-0000tB-IS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:43:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCtNq-0007Oy-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42885) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCtNc-0007Or-Pj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCtNZ-0001uy-36 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCtNY-0001uh-Sf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCtGl-0004MH-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:36:27 +0200 Original-Received: from 106.206.141.117 ([106.206.141.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:36:27 +0200 Original-Received: from vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju by 106.206.141.117 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:36:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 106.206.141.117 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <1e0ad02f-ca3e-495c-bb85-61f77090d31d@googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:105538 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 Second bullet here: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Coding-Conventions.html