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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:244980 Archived-At: ping. > Which brings us back to the beginning: >=20 > Maybe remove `special-variable-p' altogether? > Or if, as is apparently the case, it's needed for > the byte-compiler implementation, at least rename > it to indicate that it's internal, and remove it > from the manual? >=20 > I'm not trying to remake the Emacs design of > lexical scoping - or anything like that. I'm > not even trying to change how it's presented in > the doc (though maybe from this thread you'll > have some slight changes you'd like to make). >=20 > This is really only about `special-variable-p'. > Both its name and its doc are currently quite > misleading. And it doesn't seem like something > that users will ever use or should ever try to > use. I've asked about that use case...