-If you bind a variable in one function, and use it or set it in another
-function, the compiler warns about the latter function unless the
-variable has a definition. But often these variables have short names,
-and it is not clean for Lisp packages to define such variable names.
-Therefore, you should rename the variable to start with the name prefix
-used for the other functions and variables in your package.
+@item
+If you bind a variable in one function, and use it or set it in
+another function, the compiler warns about the latter function unless
+the variable has a definition. But adding a definition would be
+unclean if the variable has a short name, since Lisp packages should
+not define short variable names. The right thing to do is to rename
+this variable to start with the name prefix used for the other
+functions and variables in your package.