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Re: defvar'ing constants
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Jay Belanger |
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Re: defvar'ing constants |
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Date: |
Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:14:10 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
> For consistency:
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> (defvar CONSTANT) ; should work
> (defvar CONSTANT ITS-VALUE) ; should work
> (defvar CONSTANT OTHER-VALUE) ; should fail
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> I think it is more consistent to make them all errors.
> defvar should not be used on these symbols.
If a constant is defined in one file but used in a second, is there
then a way of quieting the compiler when the second file is compiled?