Stefan Monnier wrote: What's wrong with (defvaralias 'var1 'var2 "var1 docstring") ?
Nothing. What we are struggling with is an unintentional misfeature whereby if var1 already has a docstring then after `(defvaralias 'var1 'var2)' it keeps its docstring instead of getting var2's docstring as intended and currently documented. This really never should matter, as it can only occur if var1 has two competing definitions, a defvar or defcustom and a defvaralias, which should not happen. My example with the deliberately bad code was meant to illustrate the misfeature. I proposed a small trivial patch to eliminate the misfeature, but Richard said that this constituted an incompatible change and that we should document the feature and tell people not to use it since the feature will be eliminated in Emacs 23. (I have a hard time understanding why this is an incompatible change, since the function defvaralias in _new_ in Emacs 22, and the behavior only can occur if there already is a bug anyway.) Sincerely, Luc. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
