Re: Avoiding 'reference to free variable' warnings while splitting elisp source files

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> writes:

>> Is there a sane way to split the source of an elisp file
>> while avoiding the 'reference to free variable' warnings
>> when byte-compiling?
>>
>> The problem arises when a variable defined in one file
>> is used in another.   How does one avoid those errors?
>
> You can put
> (defvar variable-name)
> in the other file.

Nope.  Because then the initialization depends on the order of loading
the files.

You can put the defvar in a variable.el file that is required by all the
others.

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