Re: elint and the byte-compiler

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2015-06-27 00:27 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

Emanuel> only then if I set the variable before that, is there a danger
Emanuel> what is loaded will in it's own init process write over what I
Emanuel> already set?

Ian> Not if the loaded module uses defvar ...

Emanuel> Is there some fast way of finding out other than checking the
Emanuel> source for each module and variable?

Any code which sets global variables unconditionally probably cannot
make it past code review and into Emacs proper, so I wouldn't worry
about this possibility for modules that come with Emacs.

For others, I would try byte-compiling them with a virgin Emacs (ie. one
started with -q).  If they misbehave they should cause exactly the same
warning.

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