Subject: Re: bug#11904: 24.1.50; error byte compiling (defvar :foo ':foo), regression from 23.4

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:43:18 -0400

> (defvar :foo ':foo)

I'm curious: where did you find such code?
Such code used to be added "implicitly" back in Emacs-19 days because
Emacs-19 did not have keywords.  Some packages kept such code a bit
longer in the hope that the resulting code would still work under
Emacs-19, but nowadays this seems very outdated.

        Stefan