Re: Warnings about keymaps

[Stefan Monnier]

> Compilation of Lisp files yields warnings such as these two:
>     Compiling emacs/lisp/cvs-status.el

>     In toplevel form:
>     emacs/lisp/cvs-status.el:93:22:Warning: variable assignment to constant
>       `cvs-status-mode-map'
>     Compiling emacs/lisp/diff-mode.el

>     In toplevel form:
>     emacs/lisp/diff-mode.el:1273:70:Warning: variable assignment to
>       constant `diff-mode-map'

> Sounds like a bug to me.

Yes, there's some kind of bug in there.  The bug can be seen more
directly by byte-compiling the file below:

   (defconst foo nil)
   (defvar foo nil)

Looks like the "assignment-to-constant" warning should be more careful
to distinguish defvar from setq.


        Stefan