Re: Why is touch-screen.el preloaded?

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't think I understand the problem with using defvar.  AFAIU, this
> is our usual technique in these cases.

Setting these variables is an operation that will be executed
frequently, so it'll cause plenty of confusion to force every such
setter to declare them.  Some will never noticed it is not preloaded on
a few systems, and the code they produce will not compile correctly on
those systems.