Re: Evil defvars in org.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> org.el (and org-agenda.el, and maybe others) have defvars like this:
>> 
>> (defvar entry)
>> (defvar date)
>> 
>> This is going to blow up in someone's face, because it makes `entry' and
>> `date' unusable as lexical variables, even though those are very common
>> variable names.  That is to say, loading Org mode would change the
>> behavior of packages using lexical binding in some unpredictable way.
>> 
>> Why does org need to do this?  Could you try to clean it up?

> Perhaps Emacs can prefix the `evil vars' and alias them to the original,
> with a deprecation warning?

Oh, no, no, please no, if you alias them then they become globally
"dynamic vars", whereas currently they're only dynamic vars within the
files that do (defvar entry) so the damage is somewhat contained.


        Stefan