From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trying to cope with Calendar's dynamic scoping
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:58:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfvti2e2n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ko8uzawxse.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
>> But it means we have to keep using dynamic scoping for `date' and
>> `entry', for now.
> Well, it has to be done at some point, doesn't it?
> And can't you have code which works in either version just by using
> (if (boundp 'diary-date) diary-date date)
> ?
Right. My patch does provide diary-date and diary-entry, so code
can/should start doing the above, but we should keep the old code
working a bit longer by also providing the old names via dynamic scoping
(since lexical scoping is not quite sufficient for that).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-06 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-20 22:07 Trying to cope with Calendar's dynamic scoping Stefan Monnier
2013-08-21 0:19 ` Edward Reingold
2013-08-21 4:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-21 1:22 ` Leo Liu
2013-08-21 4:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-21 7:05 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-05 4:58 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-05 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-05 17:55 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-05 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-06 1:20 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-06 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-09-06 16:02 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-06 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
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