Re: smerge fix

[Richard Stallman]

    > The easiest thing to do is to say that simple (defvar foo)
    > does not count as a definition.

    When this came up before, you said that should not be done.  I think
    you said that construct was intentionally used to declare variables
    per se.

Yes, occasionally it is, but no great harm will result from this
change.  It only means that those definitions won't be recognized by
certain Emacs features.  You can correct it by changing the definition
to provide a value.

There is no harm in providing an initial value, and a real definition
really ought to provide a doc string.