GNU bug report logs - #5950
defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: irieshinsuke <at> yahoo.co.jp

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

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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From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 5950 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, IRIE Shinsuke <irieshinsuke <at> yahoo.co.jp>, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:08:30 -0400

On 2018-08-01 17:46, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Warning (defvaralias): Overwriting value of
>> ‘flycheck-python-pylint-executable’ by aliasing to
>> ‘python-shell-interpreter’
> 
> This warning tells you that the variable
> `flycheck-python-pylint-executable` already had a value before the call
> to `defvaralias`, and that this value is lost at this point.
> 
> Usually the warning is due to the defvaralias call being performed after
> the corresponding `defvar`s.

Right. But why is that a problem?
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