From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: void variable
Date: 20 Aug 2004 18:08:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4qmxa2hp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ByGcP-0005VQ-BV@fencepost.gnu.org>
> It seems to me that it would make even more sense to actually bind the
> variable's global value despite any dynamic bindings; this certainly
> would be unusual, but even warning about it violates the the usual
> `let' binding semantics.
> This might be a good idea.
I'd rather not try to guess a fixup that way. Too dangerous.
It's much safer to just report the situation so someone can figure out which
is the right way to fix it.
Or at least if we want to make it set the outer global binding, I suggest we
wait for post-21.4 to do that.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-25 6:32 void variable Lars Hansen
2004-07-25 7:56 ` Adrian Aichner
2004-07-25 19:25 ` Lars Hansen
2004-07-25 20:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-25 21:54 ` Lars Hansen
2004-07-25 23:39 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-25 23:54 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-26 1:52 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-26 2:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-26 14:30 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-26 15:12 ` Lars Hansen
2004-07-27 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-29 2:31 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-29 7:19 ` Lars Hansen
2004-07-30 3:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-30 6:56 ` Lars Hansen
2004-07-30 4:55 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-26 15:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-27 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-26 16:05 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-07-26 18:40 ` Lars Hansen
2004-07-27 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-26 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-26 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-07-26 19:46 ` Lars Hansen
2004-07-26 19:46 ` David Kastrup
2004-07-26 20:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-26 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-07-27 2:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-27 3:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-27 3:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-07-28 16:00 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-29 2:00 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-19 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-19 20:12 ` Adrian Aichner
2004-08-19 20:45 ` Davis Herring
2004-08-20 21:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-20 22:08 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-08-19 21:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-19 22:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-19 22:25 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-20 1:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-20 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-21 16:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-20 21:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-26 1:29 ` Richard Stallman
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