Re: Warning compiling obarray.el on master

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> In the longer term, maybe we should rename `obarray` to something more
>> descriptive and less likely to collide with a local var.
>> Maybe `default-obarray` or `global-obarray` or
>> `global-identifier-obarray`?
>
> Perhaps, but the danger of clashing names doesn't go away with these
> measures, it just gets lower.

And not using the optional OBARRAY parameter in `intern' was marked as
obsolete a few years ago.  I think that was a mistake, but changing all
the code that says (intern "foo" obarray) now to
(intern "foo" global-identifier-obarray) wouldn't be, er, optimal, either.

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