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From: Hendrik Tews <hendrik.tews@kernkonzept.com>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 55914@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55914: 28.1; Defining as dynamic an already lexical var
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:54:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6ail0rn.fsf@cert2.kernkonzept.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6870511b38a34c8aa56224a88862d5e@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (Phil Sainty's message of "Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:10:04 +1200")

Hi,

thanks for your quick answer.

> Which indicates a bug to be fixed, no?

Well, not as long as the documentation clear states that in this
case the dynamic value is set.

> If the variable is *supposed* to be dynamic (everywhere), then
> lexical libraries which refer to it must declare (defvar FOO) to
> mark it as a dynamic variable, if it's possible that the proper
> definition may not yet have been loaded.

Is this statement in the manual somewhere? If not, would you mind
adding it?

Best regards,

Hendrik Tews





  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-12  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-11 21:33 bug#55914: 28.1; Defining as dynamic an already lexical var Hendrik Tews
2022-06-12  0:10 ` Phil Sainty
2022-06-12  2:10   ` Phil Sainty
2022-06-12  8:54   ` Hendrik Tews [this message]
2022-06-12 10:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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