Re: Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings while splitting elisp source files

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> writes:

>>>> Is there a sane way to split the source of an elisp file
>>>> while avoiding the 'reference to free variable' warnings
>>>> when byte-compiling?
>>>>
>>>> The problem arises when a variable defined in one file
>>>> is used in another.   How does one avoid those errors?
>>>
>>> You can put
>>> (defvar variable-name)
>>> in the other file.
>>
>> Nope.  Because then the initialization depends on the order of loading
>> the files.
>
> If there is no initial value in the defvar, then the only thing the
> defvar does is quiet the compiler.

Right.  I was confused.

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