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Stefan Monnier wrote:

>I think adding such warnings won't help much.  I know damn well how those
>variable bindings work, but I get burned every once in a while anyway.
>
I did not know it. And there is a fair chance that I might have read the 
docstring.
Maybe it won't *solve* the problem, but I am sure it will help.

>Maybe we could arrange for defvar to burp a warning if the var is currently
>let-bound?
>  
>
Yes, why not?