From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>,
Didier Verna <didier@didierverna.net>
Subject: Re: Possible defvar bug
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:42:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj4tpr0e.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130218150954.GA4583@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:09:54 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>> ELISP> (let ((foo 3))
>> (defvar foo 1)
>> (print foo))
>> 3
>> ELISP> foo
>> *** Eval error *** Symbol's value as variable is void: foo
>> ELISP>
>
>> And, no, this is almost never what you want :-) Just like Tassilo
>> noticed by accident.
>
> Why would anybody want to defvar a variable inside a let binding which
> also defines it, anyway?
Yes, these minimal examples look weired. The real code was a bit more
like
(let* ((crm-separator ",") ...)
...
(function-that-might-read-multiple-values-using-crm))
and `function-that-might-read-multiple-values-using-crm' dispatches if
one or multiple separated values are to be read, and then delegates to a
read-single-value or read-multiple-values-with-crm function. The latter
required crm when being called.
The let-binding of `crm-separator' was just meant as a default value in
case crm was going to be used, because all LaTeX keyval-options use ","
to separate key-value pairs.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-18 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-18 14:40 Possible defvar bug Tassilo Horn
2013-02-18 14:47 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-18 14:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-02-18 15:00 ` Didier Verna
2013-02-18 15:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-02-18 15:41 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-02-18 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-18 16:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-02-18 16:40 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-18 16:29 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2013-02-18 15:42 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2013-02-18 16:19 ` Didier Verna
2013-02-19 1:40 ` Glenn Morris
2013-02-19 15:25 ` Richard Stallman
2013-02-19 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-19 23:29 ` Richard Stallman
2013-02-20 0:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-20 8:09 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-02-20 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-20 21:36 ` Richard Stallman
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