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Re: How can url-show-status be void when (featurep 'url-vars) is t?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: How can url-show-status be void when (featurep 'url-vars) is t?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:21:42 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>                  message_with_string ("Warning: defvar ignored because %s is
>>> let-bound",
>>>                                       SYMBOL_NAME (sym), 1);
>
>> Thanks, but should not that be an error?
>
> Feel free to turn it into an error: I think that's what it *should* do,
> but backward compatibility means we should accept it.

I don't think we should bother all too much about preserving
compatibility to what never was anything but an error.

-- 
David Kastrup




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