Re: defvar vs setqif..

[Miles Bader]

Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:
> > An example: my .emacs needs to, say, (add-hook 'foo-mode-hook... ),
> > but the hook may not be defined, so i (defvar foo-mode-hook) before
> > this statement. 
> 
> Why do you defvar it?  The best solution is to (require 'foo-mode)
> before adding the hook.  But `add-hook' won't lose if the hook isn't
> bound yet.

...and the above defvar won't bind it anyway...

-Miles
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