Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu....> writes:

> org.el (and org-agenda.el, and maybe others) have defvars like this:
>
> (defvar entry)
> (defvar date)
>
> This is going to blow up in someone's face, because it makes `entry' and
> `date' unusable as lexical variables, even though those are very common
> variable names.  That is to say, loading Org mode would change the
> behavior of packages using lexical binding in some unpredictable way.
>
> Why does org need to do this?  Could you try to clean it up?

Perhaps Emacs can prefix the `evil vars' and alias them to the original,
with a deprecation warning?

Best, Martyn