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.
next prev parent 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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