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Re: using setq to create lists based on other lists...


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: using setq to create lists based on other lists...
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:47:11 -0500
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In article <mailman.5145.1543931778.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > There's nothing wrong with it in Emacs Lisp
> 
> Actually, there is in the sense that these are global variables and so
> can interfere with other Elisp packages.

Declaring the variable with defvar won't change that. Anyway, the code 
we're talking about is just example snippets, not a full program.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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