Re: elint and the byte-compiler

[Emanuel Berg]

Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> writes:

> Any code which sets global variables unconditionally
> probably cannot make it past code review and into
> Emacs proper, so I wouldn't worry about this
> possibility for modules that come with Emacs.

OK - so in other words I can remove all the requires
and to make the byte-compiler shut up just use defvar
before I set the variable.

> For others, I would try byte-compiling them with
> a virgin Emacs (ie. one started with -q). If they
> misbehave they should cause exactly the
> same warning.

OK. Well, the only thing I use along those lines is
Emacs-w3m so it shouldn't be that much work.

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