From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Do we need C's extern in Emacs Lisp?
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:45:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkNF1XvLXRKSClzM@ACM> (raw)
Hello, Emacs.
This point came up in discussion with Lars over an old bug report.
In C, there is the keyword extern which means "defined somewhere else".
For a function, an example is
extern foo (int bar);
, and for a variable, something like
extern int foo;
.. This keyword has the property that the extern object can be defined
anywhere else in the program, and the object can be used in the current C
file without causing any errors or warnings.
Currently we do not have any equivalent in Lisp. For example, if
(defvar foo)
is in a Lisp file, then subsequent use of foo will generate an unknown
variable warning.
For example(2), if in the Lisp file there is
(declare-function foo nil)
, this generates a warning when the function foo is later defined.
I think it would be useful to have some sort of "extern" facility in our
Lisp.
What do other people think?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next reply other threads:[~2022-03-29 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-29 17:45 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-03-29 21:09 ` Do we need C's extern in Emacs Lisp? Stefan Monnier
2022-03-31 20:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-03-31 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-31 4:26 ` Richard Stallman
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