From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Lions & tigers & variables - Oh my! [was: Lisp error on function :documentation] Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:27:14 +0200 Message-ID: <8735bkbcy5.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22753"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:8Lit4slJx6TV3VF1rAVTOLD2bU8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 19 11:53:44 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ol5lf-0005fA-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:53:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49650 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ol5ld-00018d-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 05:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ol1bz-0003y5-Rn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ol1bx-0007rg-PC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:27:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ol1bu-0008Jt-Eo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:27:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 05:49:59 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140147 Archived-At: I wrote in another post that all global variables are dynamic/special but not all dynamic/special variables are global, however this is incorrect, it only happens with `defvar', not `setq' ... (setq some-var-1 111) (defvar some-var-2 222) (special-variable-p 'some-var-1) ; nil (special-variable-p 'some-var-2) ; t (defun test-global-vars () (list some-var-1 some-var-2) ) (let ((some-var-1 111000) (some-var-2 222000) ) (test-global-vars) ) ; 111 222000 -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal