From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: define-obsolete-variable-alias problem
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:36:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzls1dvh9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18429.40354.962001.482941@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:54:58 +1200")
>> Given this sequence:
>>
>> (progn
>> (setq foo 1)
>> (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'foo 'bar)
>> (defvar bar 2))
>>
>> I'd have expected the end result to be bar = foo = 1.
>> However, the actual result is bar = foo = 2.
> Isn't this really a problem with defvaralias?
Yes.
> Perhaps we could test there if new-alias is bound and if so assign the
> value to base-variable.
Indeed except if base-variable already exist, we can't do that.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-11 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-09 19:16 define-obsolete-variable-alias problem Glenn Morris
2008-04-10 4:54 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-11 1:36 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-04-11 3:53 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-11 4:12 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-11 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11 18:03 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-11 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11 20:14 ` Glenn Morris
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