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Re: elint and the byte-compiler
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: elint and the byte-compiler |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Jun 2015 01:19:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> writes:
> Any code which sets global variables unconditionally
> probably cannot make it past code review and into
> Emacs proper, so I wouldn't worry about this
> possibility for modules that come with Emacs.
OK - so in other words I can remove all the requires
and to make the byte-compiler shut up just use defvar
before I set the variable.
> For others, I would try byte-compiling them with
> a virgin Emacs (ie. one started with -q). If they
> misbehave they should cause exactly the
> same warning.
OK. Well, the only thing I use along those lines is
Emacs-w3m so it shouldn't be that much work.
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