From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings whilesplittingelisp source files
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:05:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvc8hq142.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34FC3C03F8024543AA455B46C30A3AE7@us.oracle.com
> The node (elisp) `Defining Variables' starts by saying what Emacs
> means by a "variable definition": it "announces your intention to use
> a symbol as a global variable." That is probably pretty close to what
> you mean by "declaring". It does not mention value initialization
> (which is optional).
Hmm... indeed. That's too bad: it's really a misuse of the concept of
"definition": not only is it different from most other programming
language's use of "definition" and "declaration" but it's also different
from the everyday use of "definition".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-23 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-23 16:08 Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings while splitting elisp source files Joe Riel
2013-03-23 16:19 ` Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings while splittingelisp " Drew Adams
2013-03-23 17:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-23 18:23 ` Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings whilesplittingelisp " Drew Adams
2013-03-23 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-03-23 22:41 ` Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warningswhilesplittingelisp " Drew Adams
2013-03-24 9:02 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-24 14:34 ` Drew Adams
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