On 6/28/05, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > For consistency:
> > (defvar CONSTANT) ; should work
> > (defvar CONSTANT ITS-VALUE) ; should work
> > (defvar CONSTANT OTHER-VALUE) ; should fail
> One case I know was consciously make to work is (defvar :foo :foo) so that
> packages using :foo could be kept backward compatible with Emacs-19
> where :foo is a normal variable because keywords don't exist.
Aha, that's why set-default and friends go around a few hoops to allow
setting a keyword to itself. Thanks! Anyway, that was allowed in my
original patch (it's the second case shown above) but I removed it per
Richard's request. I can re-add it if deemed appropriate.
> Whether we should still cater to such thing is another question.
No idea whether it will be usual for people with Emacs 22.X to load
19.X packages :)
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