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Re: Typo in defconst-1 and defvar-1 docstrings?


From: Philip Kaludercic
Subject: Re: Typo in defconst-1 and defvar-1 docstrings?
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:48:17 +0000

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> I was reading through the implementation of defconst-1, but was confused
> by the docstring that states:
>
>    More specifically behaves like (defvar SYM 'INITVALUE DOCSTRING).
>
> Isn't the point of defconst-1 as a functional variant of defconst, that
> SYM will evaluate to a symbol?  And why should INITVALUE be quoted?
> Unless I am mistaken, this patch ought to resolve the confusion:

And related to defconst (which is why I was looking at the definition in
the first place), is there a way to check if a variable was declared
using defconst instead of defvar?



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