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[PATCH] eval.c: New functions `defvar-f` and `defconst-f`

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Message #8 received at 55156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 55156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#55156: [PATCH] eval.c: New functions `defvar-f` and
 `defconst-f`
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:11:05 +0200

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> This sounds scary, but the reality is less so: while the behavior of
> the special form obeyed its doc in this respect, the behavior of the
> convoluted code generated by the byte-compiler did not(!) and always
> evaluated the <exp> part anyway.  So this patch also aligns the two
> semantics to provide the same behavior.

Uhm -- are you saying that if you load an .elc file twice, the <exp>
parts in the defvars will be evaluated twice?

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