Re: crash in display, triggered by calendar

[Sam Steingold]

> * In message <address@hidden>
> * On the subject of "Re: crash in display, triggered by calendar "
> * Sent on Tue, 06 Aug 2002 09:51:42 -0500
> * Honorable Ed Reingold <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > PS. may I suggest that you add some defvars in diary-lib.el to avoid
> > > compiler warnings?
> > 
> > Hmmm... I'm not sure a good idea in all the cases.  Some of the
> > variables (diary-entries-list, or entry in sexp forms) never exist at
> > the top level.  Ed, what do you think?
> 
> I have always thought that warnings are just that: warnings to be
> careful, NOT bugs.  In this case, the warnings are meaningless, so I
> think the defvars are meaningless too.  I don't object if somebody
> adds them, but I wouldn't bother.

When you get a zillion of warnings you are used to ignore, you will
miss an important one.
I suggest top-level defvar's without binding the variables.
This way you are clearly declaring that you are using these as global
specials.

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