Re: define-obsolete-variable-alias problem

[Nick Roberts]

 > Given this sequence:
 > 
 > (progn
 >   (setq foo 1)
 >   (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'foo 'bar)
 >   (defvar bar 2))
 > 
 > I'd have expected the end result to be bar = foo = 1.
 > However, the actual result is bar = foo = 2.

Isn't this really a problem with defvaralias?  Perhaps we could test there if
new-alias is bound and if so assign the value to base-variable.

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