From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Ami Fischman" <ami@fischman.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: crazy interaction between buffer-locality and function-locality of variables
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:19:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KwmDu-0001Hz-9b@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9aa0cfde0811012034h30c79d6cxa66f6ee0754e027d@mail.gmail.com> (ami@fischman.org)
(make-local-variable 'ami-wcb-bug-foo)
(defun ami-wcb-bug (ami-wcb-bug-foo)
(with-temp-buffer
ami-wcb-bug-foo))
(ami-wcb-bug 'bar)
eval'd in a *scratch* buffer results in this error: (void-variable
ami-wcb-bug-foo)
This is intentional. It is more coherent than the other possible
behaviors.
Is the behavior of binding function arguments variables subject to the
locality of the current buffer at function call time intentional?
That's a confusing way to describe things. The current buffer
when the function is called has no direct effect on the function.
What does have an effect is switching buffers within the function.
Normally this is not a problem, because the sort of names that are
used for function arguments are never made buffer-local. But you
encountered an exception.
An example of where this bit me: gnus makes
'timestamp buffer-local in *Summary* buffers, and emacs-jabber has a
function that uses "timestamp" as the name of one of its arguments and then
calls with-temp-buffer inside that function.
We should probably change the name of that variable in Gnus.
to something like `gnus-timestamp'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-02 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-02 3:34 crazy interaction between buffer-locality and function-locality of variables Ami Fischman
2008-11-02 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-02 17:43 ` Ami Fischman
2008-11-02 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-02 20:31 ` crazy interaction between buffer-locality and function-localityof variables Drew Adams
2008-11-02 23:19 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2008-11-02 23:59 ` crazy interaction between buffer-locality and function-locality of variables Ami Fischman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E1KwmDu-0001Hz-9b@fencepost.gnu.org \
--to=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=ami@fischman.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).