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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 18059@debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#18059: 24.3.92; defvar and special variables
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 08:43:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4llp9xji.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muzhsh8a.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:58:29 +0100")

>>     dynamically bound, until the current lexical environment ends, or
>>     file if at top-level.)
> Sounds ok.  I don't have any better wording.

I think the term to use here might be "lexical scope" rather than
"lexical environment" [ usually, an "environment" refers to a list of
bindings, whereas "scope" refers to an area of the program.  ]


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-09 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-20  3:23 bug#18059: 24.3.92; defvar and special variables Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-10 19:29 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-10 23:59   ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-11  0:17     ` Drew Adams
2018-02-11  0:43       ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11  0:38     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11  1:32       ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-11  2:26         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11 15:14       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-11 15:35         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11 16:38           ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-11 17:00             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-14  0:27           ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-18 22:28             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-19  1:44               ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-21 15:09                 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-21 16:08                   ` Drew Adams
2018-02-21 16:23                     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-21 16:33                       ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-21 17:15                         ` Drew Adams
2018-02-21 18:00                           ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-21 19:14                             ` Drew Adams
2018-02-21 19:19                             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-21 22:20                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-23 14:05                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-23 14:55                                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-04 23:27                                     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-05  9:51                                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-07 13:00                                         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-09  9:58                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-03-09 13:43                                             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-03-11 16:45                                               ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-11 22:16                                                 ` Drew Adams
2018-03-14 11:15                                                   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-23 12:23                                                     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-05 15:57                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 23:36                             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-09  0:15                               ` Drew Adams
2018-02-21 17:11                       ` Drew Adams
2018-02-11 15:57     ` Eli Zaretskii

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