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bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime
From: |
Clément Pit-Claudel |
Subject: |
bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Aug 2018 23:33:39 -0400 |
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On 2018-08-02 13:03, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> The typical failure case goes like this, user does this:
>>>
>>> (setq the-package-setting 'foo)
>>> (require 'the-package)
>>>
>>> And the-package.el does this:
>>>
>>> (defvar the-package-real-setting 'bar)
>>> ;; Oops! User's setting of `foo' is overwritten here:
>>> (defvaralias 'the-package-setting 'the-package-real-setting)
>>
>> Thanks. Should the warning be disabled when both variables are
>> already `defvar'd, then?
>
> Why? Replace `setq` with `defvar` in the above scenario and you have
> the same problem.
Do you? I thought the problem was that you were overwriting a user setting… if
you change the first setq into a defvar, where's the user setting that you're
overwriting?
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Noam Postavsky, 2018/08/01
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/02
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Noam Postavsky, 2018/08/02
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/02
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Stefan Monnier, 2018/08/02
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Noam Postavsky, 2018/08/03
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/03
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Noam Postavsky, 2018/08/03
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/03
- bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime, Stefan Monnier, 2018/08/03