Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> wrote: > >> Hi Bastien, >> >> I updated to master today e917477 ((org-xhtml.el): Removed, 2012-04-01) >> and am getting errors about org-clock-last-state not defined in my GNU >> Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-12-11 on >> raven, modified by Debian >> >> I can see the variable in the source defined as >> >> lisp/org-clock.el:(defvar org-clock-state) ;; dynamically scoped into this >> function >> >> but I don't get a variable definition with this code in emacs 23.2.1. >> >> If I change the definition to >> >> (defvar org-clock-state nil) >> >> then it works for me. >> >> There are _lots_ of these types of definitions with no value in the >> org-mode source. >> > > They are not supposed to *define* a variable. They are there to tell the > compiler not to worry. They are somewhat similar[fn:1] to extern declarations > in C code: whoever needs to use the variable says > > (defvar foo) > > There is (supposed to be) *one* place somewhere that actually defines > it: > > (defvar foo 1) > > Nick > > Footnotes: > > [fn:1] ...for some value of "similar". You have to take this with the > appropriately sized grain of salt.
Ah, I had no idea how this was actually supposed to work :) Thanks for the clarification. I'll rewind to an older commit for now that works for me ... since I need it at work tomorrow. Thanks, Bernt
