Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is exactly the kind of thing which will screw other code in the > long run. That other package might test (boundp 'foo) and we used > defvar foo to silence the compiler... It might work (and many people > do this), but we'll need to really make sure that such a defvar is > harmless.
Note that (defvar foo) is a special construct: /---- | *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help. | ELISP> (defvar xyzzy) | xyzzy | ELISP> (boundp 'xyzzy) | nil | ELISP> (emacs-version) | "GNU Emacs 21.2.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)\n of 2002-01-14 on lucy" | ELISP> \---- Not sure what it does on XEmacs. kai -- Simplification good! Oversimplification bad! (Larry Wall) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
