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On 2010-05-04, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>> (But, as I said, with newer versions of Emacs I suspect one ALSO
>>  needs to prune all cperl-* symbols first - there is some
>>  contamination left from the bundled (pre-loaded!) version.)
>
> Which is a way of saying that the initialisation for cperl-mode isn't
> watertight.  ;-)

Could you be more specific with your "watertight" adjective?  How
should a module writer deal with a possibility to have a buggy version
preloaded?

  [And keep in mind that I have no clue how `defvar' should work with
   preloaded modules]

Yours,
Ilya