From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unused local variables Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:36:02 +0100 Message-ID: <85bq9c10ml.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87wss1qd9e.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <20071130.092322.193982611.kazu@iij.ad.jp> <20071130.182726.126856507.kazu@iij.ad.jp> <85r6i812aq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85hcj4117d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196418976 32667 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2007 10:36:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?B?5bGx5pys5ZKM5b2mIEthenUgWWFtYW1vdG8=?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 11:36:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iy3EH-00011n-3Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:36:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy3E1-0001uM-5o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:36:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy3Dl-0001oO-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:35:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy3Dk-0001ng-Bg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy3Dk-0001nV-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iy3Dj-0002PT-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:35:43 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iy3Dj-0008Lw-2w; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:35:43 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E9AB41C4D3AA; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:36:02 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:26:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84348 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Nov 30, 2007 11:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> > Now, I'm all for lexically scoped Lisp and (declare (special >> > mydynamic-var)) and the like, but clearly that's not the route elisp >> > is following. >> >> It is pretty much the current practice in Emacs code. > > Lexical scoping? defvar-ing variables used for inter-function communication. > Or are you purposefully misinterpreting the phrase you quoted? I think we have enough potential for misunderstandings to make it unnecessary to do them on purpose. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum