From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings while splitting elisp source files
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:19:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj3mnl5v.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sj3mp048.fsf@gmail.com
Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> writes:
>> Is there a sane way to split the source of an elisp file
>> while avoiding the 'reference to free variable' warnings
>> when byte-compiling?
>>
>> The problem arises when a variable defined in one file
>> is used in another. How does one avoid those errors?
>
> You can put
> (defvar variable-name)
> in the other file.
Nope. Because then the initialization depends on the order of loading
the files.
You can put the defvar in a variable.el file that is required by all the
others.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.
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2013-03-23 16:11 ` Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings while splitting elisp source files Jay Belanger
2013-03-23 16:19 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2013-03-23 16:51 ` Jay Belanger
2013-03-23 16:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-03-23 16:08 Joe Riel
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