From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trying to cope with Calendar's dynamic scoping Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:29:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378402217 23238 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2013 17:30:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:30:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 05 19:30:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VHdNq-0006gW-TC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 19:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHdNq-0001Ay-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53887) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHdNf-00018I-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:30:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHdNY-0004RB-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:50503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHdNQ-0004Qd-B6; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:29:52 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id r85HTpdN000518; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5FF97B41C5; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:29:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:58:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4692=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4692> : inlines <69> : streams <1032135> : uri <1528015> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163201 Archived-At: > This looks really neat. Was there any particular aspect you thought > might not work? Well, there's the fundamental difference between lexical and dynamic scoping: While you can have &%%(blabla date blabla) you can't have &%%(my-cal-fun) where my-cal-fun is defined in your .emacs as (defun my-cal-fun () (blabla date blabla)) -- Stefan