From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Declaring a local dynamic variable? Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:15:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <524555A8.1060803@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380288030 19404 80.91.229.3 (27 Sep 2013 13:20:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:20:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 27 15:20:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VPXyA-00023A-ME for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:20:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPXyA-0008TC-9A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:20:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPXxs-0008T1-3u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPXxk-0003zb-Qc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPXxk-0003wL-K0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPXxj-0001Z2-Jp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 184.175.15.200 ([184.175.15.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 184.175.15.200 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.175.15.200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e4adb9gXC2jO6kK/jYUtIcVtJFQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93663 Archived-At: >> Same in Elisp. But if d1 and d2 are in two separate packages that know >> nothing about each other but who happen to call each other through some >> potentially twisted sequence of calls, they will still interfere, >> because there's only (globally) one dynamic variable by that name. > Now if two separate packages define a lexical var with the very same, > is such a confusion excluded? Of course. Stefan