From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: void variable Date: 26 Jul 2004 21:46:52 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <410353ED.1090107@math.ku.dk> <4104091E.4040007@math.ku.dk> <200407252046.i6PKkFH29813@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090871277 10711 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 19:47:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsh@math.ku.dk, Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 21:47:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BpBRc-0002dl-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:47:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpBUf-00061F-NV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpBUS-0005y6-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpBUR-0005xd-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpBUR-0005xY-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpBR0-0005uZ-UK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpBR0-0001Wu-8I; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:46:54 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25989 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25989 Stefan Monnier writes: > > Unless other people might be confused by this too. Maybe it might be > > good to add the above warning to the involved docstrings. > > I think adding such warnings won't help much. I know damn well how those > variable bindings work, but I get burned every once in a while anyway. > > Maybe we could arrange for defvar to burp a warning if the var is currently > let-bound? Sounds like a more effective solution to me. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum