Re: Is it necessary to reset or clear the global variables ?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I am trying to modify or improve an existing lisp function written by
> myself a few years ago. I have observed that when I run it on the test
> data after some modification, it appears to run because the global
> variables have old value and some regular expression or result did not
> produce a nil or did produce a nil which resulted in the failure of
> the function to die or crash during execution.

This description is way too vague.  Show us some actual code.


        Stefan