Re: use of (defvar <foo>)

[David Kastrup]

Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:

> If the effect of the defvar on load-history has been redefined as a
> bug, the eval-when-compile wrapper does avoid a bug, and I don't see
> how it could reasonably be harmful in a future Emacs.

defvar is the main way to inform the system a variable could be bound
dynamically instead of just lexically.  Having it omitted on runtime
could lead to hard to find bugs if we change to lexical binding at one
time.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum