Re: Generality of defvar

[carlmarcos]

Jul 26, 2022, 23:01 by philipk@posteo.net:

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> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Have been looking into defvar and noticed the generality of its use
>>
>> (defvar aname t)
>> (defvar bname nil)
>> (defvar cname 1)
>> (defvar dname "text")
>>
>> Then I can do
>>
>> (when aname (setq debug-on-error t))
>> (when bname (setq debug-on-error nil))
>>
>> Is this correct?
>>
>
> You can /do/ it, but what do you /want/ to archive?
>
Want to use a defvar to enable or disable some functionality using `when', such 
as enabling error diagnostics with the command  

(when myopt (setq debug-on-error t))