From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar' Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 22:55:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871r9ly7v3.fsf@web.de> <87r1hlw6pn.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26351"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:O+xN1oLDEb4ssVcryecLB/qY7Y0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 02 05:00:34 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1loH7S-0006lL-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 05:00:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45804 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1loH7R-0005FF-KB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1loH70-0005El-5M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:58904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1loH6y-0000b2-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1loH6v-0006Bh-Pt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 05:00:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130485 Archived-At: >> Seems that syntax is only meaningful in lexically binding Elisp. > Is there no syntax that works for dynamic and lexical binding? Why would you need it to work in the old dynbound dialect? Nowadays I see no good reason to use the old dialect for new code. Stefan