Re: Odd behavior of `eval-when-compile'

[Jay Belanger]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
...
> Of course: there is no `vara' in the running Emacs: it's only present in the
> b.el file which is being compiled but hasn't been loaded yet.
...
>     (eval-and-compile (defvar vara 2))
>     (defvar varb (eval-when-compile (+ 1 vara)))

Thanks for the explanation; it makes sense now.

Jay