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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Explicitly show how let works on global-variables
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:34:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mta8lpal.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAO48Bk-Hk7WaV8=p4amSwcwjPgS6ePswMCgXcp_yYOOrst3vbw@mail.gmail.com

Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez wrote:

> So, can someone more informed than myself provide an
> informed patch

We should have

- a `dlet' which is always dynamic/special;

- a `let' which is what we have today with `let' and
  ";;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-", i.e. lexical/static unless
  the variable is already dynamic/special, in which case it
  would remain so only with the new value stacked; and

- a `slet' which is always lexical/static.

Then we would drop ";;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-" from all
files, we would write three docstrings (`dlet', `let' and
`slet') and that would de it ...

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-06 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-04  6:46 PATCH: Explicitly show how let works on global-variables Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-10-04  7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04  8:09   ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-10-04 11:36     ` Phil Sainty
2022-10-04 13:43       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-04 22:22       ` Tim Cross
2022-10-05  5:28         ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-10-06  9:00           ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-10-06 19:34             ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-10-04 17:39   ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-04  7:59 ` tomas
2022-10-04 11:56   ` Phil Sainty
2022-10-04 13:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-05 21:31     ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-04 15:00 ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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