From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is touch-screen.el preloaded?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 08:02:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s0d1qc9ctpt.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h6l67yh9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:18:26 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I don't think I understand the problem with using defvar. AFAIU, this
> is our usual technique in these cases.
Setting these variables is an operation that will be executed
frequently, so it'll cause plenty of confusion to force every such
setter to declare them. Some will never noticed it is not preloaded on
a few systems, and the code they produce will not compile correctly on
those systems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-29 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-25 12:25 Why is touch-screen.el preloaded? Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-26 2:02 ` Po Lu
2023-11-26 5:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-26 11:51 ` Po Lu
2023-11-26 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-28 5:07 ` Po Lu
2023-11-28 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-29 0:02 ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-11-29 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-29 11:53 ` Po Lu
2023-11-29 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-27 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
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