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From: Martyn Jago <martyn.jago@btinternet.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Evil defvars in org.el
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 23:48:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2havq5lxh.fsf@btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k411g8xa.fsf@gnu.org

Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org> writes:

> org.el (and org-agenda.el, and maybe others) have defvars like this:
>
> (defvar entry)
> (defvar date)
>
> This is going to blow up in someone's face, because it makes `entry' and
> `date' unusable as lexical variables, even though those are very common
> variable names.  That is to say, loading Org mode would change the
> behavior of packages using lexical binding in some unpredictable way.
>
> Why does org need to do this?  Could you try to clean it up?

Perhaps Emacs can prefix the `evil vars' and alias them to the original,
with a deprecation warning?

Best, Martyn





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-08 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-27  3:17 Evil defvars in org.el Chong Yidong
2012-04-27  6:07 ` Bastien
2012-04-27 14:48   ` Bastien
2012-04-27 14:57     ` Edward Reingold
2012-04-27 16:14       ` Bastien
2012-04-27 17:09       ` SAKURAI Masashi
2012-04-27 16:05     ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-27 16:33       ` Drew Adams
2012-04-28  0:15         ` Miles Bader
2012-04-28  0:17           ` Drew Adams
2012-04-28  0:48             ` Miles Bader
2012-04-28  2:25       ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04  6:56         ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-04 15:29           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-04 20:53             ` Johan Bockgård
2012-05-05  0:37               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-05 20:00             ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-07 14:57               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28  2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28  5:57   ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-28 15:10     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 16:31       ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-28 19:33         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28  6:00   ` Drew Adams
2012-05-08 22:48 ` Martyn Jago [this message]
2012-05-09 17:37   ` Stefan Monnier

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