Re: smerge fix

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Using defvar inside eval-when-compile is rather a nuisance.
> Whatever we recommend for preventing warnings about unknown
> variables, it should be more convenient than that.

[I don't see why it's more inconvenient than using it around `require',
and code that has to be portable to older versions and XEmacs will
need to carry on doing that.]

> What we actually recommend for the purpose is a plain defvar.

The example in (elisp)Tips uses eval-when-compile, and the text was
meant to caution explicitly to use it.

> The easiest thing to do is to say that simple (defvar foo)
> does not count as a definition.

When this came up before, you said that should not be done.  I think
you said that construct was intentionally used to declare variables
per se.