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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 14926@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14926: 24.3.50; Warning "`make-variable-buffer-local' should be called at toplevel"
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:43:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738qb816m.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvehar47yp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:59:11 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > 1. The Elisp manual says nothing about this.  Is this something new?
>
> No.
>
> > 2. What is wrong with code such as this at top level?
>
> Nothing.  But most of the cases I bumped into (all of which have been
> fixed now, AFAIK) were cases where the author had confused
> make-local-variable and make-variable-buffer-local.

Maybe

  "Warning: `make-variable-buffer-local' not called at toplevel"

would have the same learning experience, without saying "should be...",
which is wrong and confusing to people who know what they're doing.


Michael.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-15 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-21 21:11 bug#14926: 24.3.50; Warning "`make-variable-buffer-local' should be called at toplevel" Drew Adams
2013-07-22  2:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-22  4:31   ` Drew Adams
2013-08-15 14:43   ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2013-08-15 16:33     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-15 18:19       ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16  6:54       ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-16  7:34         ` Drew Adams
2013-08-16  7:45         ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-16 11:09           ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16 14:07             ` Drew Adams
2013-08-16 21:23               ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16 22:14                 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-16 16:25           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-16 16:31             ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-16 17:58             ` Drew Adams
2013-08-16 18:01             ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-16 21:26               ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-08-16 21:40                 ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-16 23:02                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-02-08  5:28           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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