Andy Moreton <andrewjmore...@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
