GNU bug report logs - #40088
27.0.90; Symbol’s value as variable is void: debugger-outer-match-data

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 27.0.90

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 40088 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>, 40088 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40088: 27.0.90; Symbol’s value as variable is void: debugger-outer-match-data
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:34:50 +0200

On 18.03.2020 2:06, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> If there are lots of cases like this under the cited thousands then I
> guess we need a way to declare a variable special without assigning an
> init value.

It's already "special" where it's used (in one file). "value as variable 
is void" is what happens when it doesn't have an init value, and nobody 
bound it to anything.
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