Re: Declaring variables

[Richard Stallman]

    I think it would be much cleaner to fix etags (or whatever is the
    problem) than to add hacks like the above to all the files that use a
    variable...

Are you advocating that we use plain defvar in the files,
and modify only the tools?

Would etags simply ignore a defvar with no arguments?  There are some
global variables that have just one defvar with no arguments.  One can
argue that they ought to have doc strings.