From: IRIE Shinsuke <irieshinsuke@yahoo.co.jp>
To: 5950@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:13:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC6A096.8030801@yahoo.co.jp> (raw)
Please consider below:
We assume an user wrote .emacs file as:
(setq old-foo 123)
(load "bar")
Here, bar.el includes the following:
(defvar foo 456)
(define-obsolete-variable-alias 'old-foo 'foo)
By this .emacs setting, the user probably hopes `old-foo' remains 123
after loading bar.el, but actually it will be changed to 456. This
behavior is inconsistent with the principle that `defvar' must not
override existing value, so bar.el should be modified as:
(define-obsolete-variable-alias 'old-foo 'foo)
(defvar foo 456)
I think the programs like bar.el should be warned when running (and
byte-compiling, if possible).
--
IRIE Shinsuke, Ph.D.
next reply other threads:[~2010-04-15 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-15 5:13 IRIE Shinsuke [this message]
2010-09-15 20:16 ` bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime Glenn Morris
2010-09-16 0:44 ` IRIE Shinsuke
2010-09-16 3:51 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-16 9:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-26 16:52 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-26 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-26 23:54 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-12 11:48 ` Noam Postavsky
[not found] ` <cb864996-c592-5507-f0c6-be07d17f13ee@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <jwvlg9pkbip.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2018-08-02 13:08 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-08-02 13:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-02 14:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-08-02 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-03 3:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-08-03 20:23 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-03 21:00 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-08-03 22:09 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-03 22:24 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-08-03 21:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-02 2:14 ` Noam Postavsky
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