Re: Generality of defvar

[carlmarcos]

Jul 26, 2022, 23:16 by incal@dataswamp.org:

> carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>
>> Have been looking into defvar and noticed the generality of
>> its use
>>
>> (defvar aname t)
>> (defvar bname nil)
>> (defvar cname 1)
>> (defvar dname "text")
>>
>
> For practical reasons it can be better to do
>
> (defvar var-name)
> (setq var-name 'var-value)
>
> instead because if you do something with that and want to
> reset it, it's enough to evaluate the second line, whereas if
> you just have the first line you tend to evaluate that one and
> if/because the variable is already set at that point then
> nothing will happen ...
>

I cannot follow what you are trying to say.