From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Can't M-x compile-defun `edebug' because dynamic variables are falsely taken as lexical.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:23:32 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40aa6b5c-3a58-4fb5-8a61-0c86eb534c4a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a1d6af0-7561-4679-930c-3bcda6169764@default>
ping.
> Which brings us back to the beginning:
>
> Maybe remove `special-variable-p' altogether?
> Or if, as is apparently the case, it's needed for
> the byte-compiler implementation, at least rename
> it to indicate that it's internal, and remove it
> from the manual?
>
> I'm not trying to remake the Emacs design of
> lexical scoping - or anything like that. I'm
> not even trying to change how it's presented in
> the doc (though maybe from this thread you'll
> have some slight changes you'd like to make).
>
> This is really only about `special-variable-p'.
> Both its name and its doc are currently quite
> misleading. And it doesn't seem like something
> that users will ever use or should ever try to
> use. I've asked about that use case...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-17 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-03 14:14 Can't M-x compile-defun `edebug' because dynamic variables are falsely taken as lexical Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-03 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-03 21:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-03 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-04 13:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-04 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-04 20:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-04 21:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-04 22:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-04 22:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-04 22:44 ` Drew Adams
2017-01-05 10:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-02-13 16:42 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-13 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-13 20:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-13 22:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-14 1:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-14 2:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-14 17:25 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-14 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-17 18:23 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-02-13 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-14 1:13 ` Drew Adams
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