quick work-around for private vars (obscure)

Case: well-meaning library author decides to go the public/private route (rather than separating said private functions into namespaces while retaining opt-in visibility for future consumers), and consumer (me) needs to get the value of a declared private var (not function).

The typical work-around for functions is to use sharp-quote, #'the-private-function which is fine for functions but not so hot for vars with non-function values.

enter var-get:

(var-get #'the-private-var)
:some-hidden-value

I haven't run into this too often in practice (e.g. actually needing to scrape some data that's been privatized), but there's always a first.

edit: A more invasive method to just hope over to the namespace at run time and (def private-var private-var)