[Ecls-list] turn off auto declares

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 15:15 +0100, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll wrote:
> I do not see this work on my copy of CMUCL (19a-release-20 from
> Debian) :-/ See below that the behavior of the compiler is independent
> of the variable they mention: it always signals an error on undefined
> variables, much like ECL. Hence, ext:*top-level-auto-declare* only
> controls how interpreted forms behave, and even then it is only a
> warning, not an error.
> 
> Is this what you meant?
> 
> Juanjo

The following statement was run on one CMUCL session:

> * (setq s 1)
> Warning:  Declaring S special.
> 
> 1

The following ones in a different one:

> * (setq ext:*top-level-auto-declare* nil)
> 
> NIL
> * (compile 'foo '(lambda () (setq s 1)))
> ; Compiling LAMBDA NIL:
> ; Compiling Top-Level Form:
> 
> ; In: LAMBDA NIL
> 
> ;   (SETQ S 1)
> ; Warning: Undefined variable S
> ; ;
> 
> ; Warning: This variable is undefined:
> ;   S
> ;
> 
> ; Compilation unit finished.
> ;   2 warnings
> 
> 
> FOO
> NIL
> NIL
> * (foo)
> 
> 1

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