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