From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings whilesplittingelisp source files Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:05:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20130323090800.172d8df4@gauss> <34FC3C03F8024543AA455B46C30A3AE7@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364072785 29123 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2013 21:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:06:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 23 22:06:47 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJVeJ-0000m5-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:06:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJVdv-0002vY-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJVdk-0002vL-8M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:06:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJVdj-00026i-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJVdj-00026e-1w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:06:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJVe5-0000aZ-7U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:06:33 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.180.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:06:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:06:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QnmUaU/B2HfDgtt0l+SMVZ1UkAI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89700 Archived-At: > 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