Re: Question reg. docstring of symbol-value

[Robin Tarsiger <rtt@dasyatidae.com>]

Arash Esbati wrote:
> Is the intention to say "..., this returns the global value outside of
> any lexical scope for symbols not marked as special" or something like
> that?  Or am I missing something?
 From the documentation for defvar:

 > The ‘defvar’ form also declares the variable as "special", so that it
 > is always dynamically bound even if ‘lexical-binding’ is t.

Basically, special variables don't get lexically bound in the first place,
so the let doesn't introduce a lexical binding for that variable; it
introduces a dynamic one, and dynamic bindings affect symbol-value.

-RTT