From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 20:41:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-ef273bd5-28e9-47cb-92fe-fa9337cd29a3-1604691707239@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveel6cmyw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2020 at 8:23 PM
> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
>
> >> But I wonder why we'd recommend other users not to use lexical-binding
> >> in their `init.el`.
> > Because the defun special form didn’t work properly in lexically bound contexts.
>
> I fail to see the connection. The restriction of `defun` in lexical
> context was very minor, only affected rather unusual circumstances
> anyway, and could very easily be circumvented. And I fail to see why it
> should have affected init.el files more than others.
>
> > But since 24.3, the problem with the symbol counter was resolved,
>
> I don't know what "problem with the symbol counter" you're referring to.
Let should bind to variables only, but it wasn't. Nevertheless, the recommendation
is of no value today, and should not be mentioned anymore.
>
> > People can use it without any harm.
>
> Of course. Many people do already.
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 15:16 Defun Self Documentation Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 15:45 ` tomas
2020-11-05 15:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:00 ` tomas
2020-11-05 16:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 18:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-05 19:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 16:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 16:51 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-05 16:59 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 17:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 17:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 19:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 19:22 ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-05 19:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-05 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-05 21:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 5:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 7:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2020-11-06 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-11-06 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-11-06 18:03 ` Christopher Dimech
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2020-11-06 11:10 ` Defun Self Documentation (let us do it different) Jean Louis
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2020-11-06 17:02 ` Defun Self Documentation Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 19:07 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-06 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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2020-11-06 9:10 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 15:33 Anders Munch
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