From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PATCH: Explicitly show how let works on global-variables Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:34:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87mta8lpal.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <83czb8vxdo.fsf@gnu.org> <08f6be68d07b1c3ee3c65f8fb6842eb3@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <86lepvut3l.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18435"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:QJOAfDrhcuzu3HtVIGOeLArsslU= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 21:39:28 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ogWiN-0004be-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:39:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33950 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogWiM-0006jg-Oa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogWeA-00020h-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:45092) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogWe8-0004sG-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ogWe5-0008wj-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:35:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:38:07 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:297119 Archived-At: 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 ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal