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| From: | Artur Malabarba |
| Subject: | Re: add-hook and defvar |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Feb 2015 05:10:10 +0000 |
On Feb 22, 2015 4:18 PM, "Stefan Monnier" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > There's also the disadvantage that it adds a symbol-property check to
> > every `defvar' call.
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> That's a fairly significant disadvantage.
Yes. We can also just throw an error if the variable isn't defined, like every other function out there.
We can do that as a new function, `add-to-hook', and slowly obsolete add-hook.
> Another problem is that defvar may simply never be called.
But isn't it a bug to run-hooks a variable that was never explicitly defined?
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