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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Tino Calancha <f92capac@gmail.com>
Cc: 23781@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:25:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fdn96sv.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bd7ad5e-7319-5f07-4612-26cda5621291@gmail.com> (Tino Calancha's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:19:02 +0900")

Tino Calancha <f92capac@gmail.com> writes:

> (defun my-test-lexical ()
>   "Test of lexical-binding."
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((values '("a" "b" "c")))
>     (read-string "lexical: " (car values) '(values . 1))))
>
> [...]
> II.3) (Different)
> M-x my-test-lexical RET
> ;; minibuffer shows: lexical: a
> M-p
> ;; user-error: Beginning of history; no preceding item

AFAICT this is expected and not specific to `read-string': A quoted
symbol can never refer to a lexical binding - and `symbol-value' or
`eval' always return the dynamic binding.

Some time ago, Stefan gave a good explanation about this topic (in
emacs-dev, I think).


Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-17 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-17  5:19 bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound Tino Calancha
2016-06-17 15:25 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2016-06-23 23:01   ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-23 23:18     ` Drew Adams
2016-06-25  0:26       ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 10:12         ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-25 16:53           ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 18:53             ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-25 19:46               ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 22:07                 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-25 23:42                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-06-26  3:34                     ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-27  0:55                       ` Noam Postavsky
2016-07-01  4:07                         ` npostavs
2016-06-26  2:23                   ` Drew Adams
2016-06-25 21:00               ` Drew Adams
2016-06-25 20:42             ` Drew Adams
2016-06-24  2:24     ` Tino Calancha

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