From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Doc string of defvar Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:35:43 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="122733"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 16 04:36:18 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL1l-000VkX-N2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:36:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL1k-0006zM-OG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35451) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL1E-0006zG-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:35:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL1E-0002k4-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:35:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL1D-0003Kr-L8; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:35:43 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237709 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The doc string of defvar should say it makes the variable special (every binding is dynamic, not lexical). -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)