Re: emacs-lisp/cl.el (pushnew): void-variable x

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>>     But what's the wisdom behind pushnew-internal [we already know that
>>     PLACE is a symbol]?
>>
>> This is in case we someday switch to lexical binding.
>> add-to-list won't work properly on lexical varables.
>
> Ok, but why does it need a defvar ?

That tells the compiler that pushnew-internal is a special (non-lexical)
variable.

-Miles

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