Re: Defvar not called at top level

[Stefan Monnier]

Arthur Miller [2021-11-24 11:47:16] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Arthur Miller [2021-11-23 14:28:04] wrote:
>>> Just a question: why is it important to call defvar from top level?
>>> I would like to have some code that generates some other code, amongs that 
>>> to
>>> declare few global symbols with auto generated docs as well.
>>
>> Presumably you can do this with
>>
>>     (defmacro FOO (..) ... `(defvar ...) ...)
>>
>>     (FOO ...)
>>
>>> If I call those from a defun/macro normally I get that warning that defvar 
>>> is
>>> not called at top level;
>>
>> Can you show the actual warning?
>
>
> Thank you for the answer; it seems like I can't :).
>
> I am sorry, I had too many things in my head and confused things. It was not
> "defvar" it was "defvar-local". I appologize.

So the warning was not about `defvar` but about `make-variable-buffer-local`.
The reason for this warning is to catch the widespread confusion between
`make-variable-buffer-local` and `make-local-variable`.


        Stefan