From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's the equivalent of `boundp' for lexical variables?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:36:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZbQlyVq-LUAco94t@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bk974wih.fsf@igel.home>
Hello, Andreas.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 22:25:58 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jan 26 2024, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > A symbol might have a lexical binding, it might not. The problem is how
> > to test which one of these applies.
> A lexical variable does not have a name, and a symbol cannot have a
> lexical binding.
Lexical variables are manipulated by their names, symbols which refer to
them.
Thanks for being so helpful. Maybe, just maybe, instead of insisting on
being pedantically correct, you might try to give the poster information
which would be useful to him.
> --
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
> GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
> "And now for something completely different."
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-26 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-26 20:16 What's the equivalent of `boundp' for lexical variables? Alan Mackenzie
2024-01-26 20:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-01-26 20:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-01-26 21:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-01-26 21:36 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2024-01-26 21:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-01-28 5:28 ` Po Lu
2024-01-27 6:21 ` tomas
2024-01-28 3:01 ` Richard Stallman
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