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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
	18059@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#18059: 24.3.92; defvar and special variables
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:23:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-9AOET2FKnmvtN2dycdykACVwH24La3fDmERECqLKjtxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd8e1f76-4360-4369-b418-4941e1814f64@default>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Seriously though, I honestly can't see much use for a non-toplevel
>> defvar. Can you point to any examples?
>
> Seriously?
>
> (when (> emacs-major-version 24)
>   (defvar foo 42 "The answer."))
>
> (when (fboundp 'fooness)
>   (let ((the_answer  (fooness)))
>     (defvar foo the_answer "The answer.")))

I meant real life examples.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-21 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-20  3:23 bug#18059: 24.3.92; defvar and special variables Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-10 19:29 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-10 23:59   ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-11  0:17     ` Drew Adams
2018-02-11  0:43       ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11  0:38     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11  1:32       ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-11  2:26         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11 15:14       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-11 15:35         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11 16:38           ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-11 17:00             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-14  0:27           ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-18 22:28             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-19  1:44               ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-21 15:09                 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-21 16:08                   ` Drew Adams
2018-02-21 16:23                     ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-02-21 16:33                       ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-21 17:15                         ` Drew Adams
2018-02-21 18:00                           ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-21 19:14                             ` Drew Adams
2018-02-21 19:19                             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-21 22:20                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-23 14:05                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-23 14:55                                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-04 23:27                                     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-05  9:51                                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-07 13:00                                         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-09  9:58                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-09 13:43                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-11 16:45                                               ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-11 22:16                                                 ` Drew Adams
2018-03-14 11:15                                                   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-23 12:23                                                     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-05 15:57                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 23:36                             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-09  0:15                               ` Drew Adams
2018-02-21 17:11                       ` Drew Adams
2018-02-11 15:57     ` Eli Zaretskii

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