bug#21466: [PATCH] Avoid defining (temporarily) vars and functions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Whilst that may happen to work as a kludge, it's against the intent of
> declare-function, so personally I would prefer that it either remained
> undocumented, or you do it properly and make FILE an optional argument
> (I haven't checked if check-declare would need changes for that).

I almost made it optional at the same time, but then changed my mind --
the nil case is abnormal and it probably almost always an error, so
having an explicit nil parameter seemed a more productive alternative.

But if others feel differently, go ahead and change it.

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