From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: "Edward M. Reingold" <reingold@cs.uiuc.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trying to cope with Calendar's dynamic scoping
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:33:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr4dnmzqm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ioyzbzx0.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo Liu's message of "Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:22:51 +0800")
>> It also renames `date' and `entry' to `diary-date' and `diary-entry'
>> where dynamic scoping is used.
> In diary files one can reference `date' etc. directly. This will break
> those diary files.
In those cases, the variables are bound, just not via dynamic
scoping ;-)
It's all pretty tricky business, so please try not to assume too much
about how the code works. Instead, try it out and report
concrete problems. It may very well be that the approach won't work in
practice.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-21 4:33 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 [this message]
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
2013-09-06 16:02 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-06 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
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