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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compile warnings on Win7/Emacs24.0.50
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:50:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aacbup1a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82zkkhaeim.fsf@gmail.com> (Andy Moreton's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:32:01 +0100")

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed 13 Jul 2011, Achim Gratz wrote:
>
>> I've tested some things on Win7 and happen to have an Emacs24 installed
>> there, so I compiled the latest org-mode.  I got quite a few warnings
>> that I've never seen before with Emacs23, so I assume this is Emacs24
>> tightening the screws on some loseness.  I don't remember the exact
>> warning text, but it was something about top-level forms and global
>> variables not having a prefix (presumably to keep them in their own
>> namespace and not step on the toes of other packages).
>
> AFAIK this is because emacs-24 now supports lexical scope. The use of
> name prefixes is used to manage namespace as you mention, but also as
> convention used by the byte compiler to help distinguish between uses of
> lexically and dynamicly scoped variable bindings.

Yes, there is lots of (boring) work to do in this area to get rid of
those warnings.  

Thanks for bringing this up,

-- 
 Bastien

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-18 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-13 16:23 Compile warnings on Win7/Emacs24.0.50 Achim Gratz
2011-07-14  0:32 ` Andy Moreton
2011-07-18 23:50   ` Bastien [this message]

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