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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 24 Jun 1997 17:29:03 +0200
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eeide@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Eric Eide) writes:

> OK, I guess I'll have to look at the ChangeLogs.  (I am the author
> of `emacs-vers'.)  But what is this ``typed variable'' stuff?  Did
> somebody add type declarations to Emacs Lisp while I wasn't watching
> :-)?

Well, I don't know how long you have been averting your eyes, but
builtin variables /are/ typed:

emacs-major-version's value is 20
  -- a built-in integer variable.

(setq emacs-major-version 'foo)
  error--> Wrong type argument: integerp, foo

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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