Re: re-loading an elisp file

[David Combs]

In article <mailman.22.1299377327.22865.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
PJ Weisberg  <pj@irregularexpressions.net> wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:36 PM, ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/05/2011 01:11 PM Drew Adams wrote:
>>> But it seems that we've been down this road before...
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2009-06/msg00394.html
>>>
>>
>> The counterintuitive is harder to remember over the years.
>
>Think of defvar as defining a variable.  If the variable is already
>defined, there's nothing for defvar to do.  Setting the variable's
...

Suppose the default value is 5, and then you reset (via setq) it
to 0, or null, or the like.

Then you read in a .el-file containing a defvar on it --
what happens then?

David