From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can't M-x compile-defun `edebug' because dynamic variables are falsely taken as lexical. Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:49:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20170103141444.GA4649@acm.fritz.box> <20170103213228.GB2085@acm.fritz.box> <20170104133948.GA7373@acm.fritz.box> <20170104200458.GA2052@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483566626 32068 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2017 21:50:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 21:50:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 22:50:22 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cOtRp-0007Dq-DM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:50:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42354 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOtRs-0003ow-12 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:50:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOtRA-0003oc-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOtR7-00019q-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:49:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41943 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOtR7-00019e-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cOtQy-0000oq-Re for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:49:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:AaqinbCIdB5omfsCtEOPvg/lrHs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:211113 Archived-At: > special-variable-p would appear to be a near useless function, since it > doesn't do what it's name says. It's useful for the compiler, but it's mostly internal, indeed. > There appears to be no way of checking whether a variable's binding is > (or will be) lexical. In which context do you need/want to do that (I ask because how to do it (and even if it can be done) depends on the details)? Stefan