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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: byte-compiler warn on quote lexical var?
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:01:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a8u7dug0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)

I've posted bug#21185; it suggests that the byte-compiler should warn
when a lexical variable is quoted.

For example, with this code:

;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

(defun display-var (var)
  "Display variable value of VAR (a symbol), if any."
  (cond
   ((boundp var)
    (message "%s: %s" (symbol-name var) (symbol-value var)))

   (t
    (message "%s not bound" (symbol-name var)))))

(defun quote-lexical-var ()
  (let ((my-var "foo"))
    (message "non-quoted my-var: %s" my-var)
    (display-var 'my-var)))

the call to 'display-var' reports "not bound".

I've been bitten by this problem a couple of times when porting code to
lexical binding; I'd like the byte-compiler to warn me about it.

Is that reasonable?

Can anyone point me to where in the byte-compiler code I should look to
start working on adding this?

-- 
-- Stephe



             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-04 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-04 14:01 Stephen Leake [this message]
2015-08-08 13:57 ` byte-compiler warn on quote lexical var? Stefan Monnier

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