From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: `max-specpdl-size' and `max-lisp-eval-depth'
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:23:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fstpt04p.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877df1dk9p.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:14:42 +0200")
On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:14:42 +0200 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> The term goes back to the beginnings of Lisp (McCarthy's paper from
>> 1960, available via the Wayback Machine from
>> http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/node4.html):
>>
>> In general (we shall discuss an exception), the routine for a
>> recursive function uses itself as a subroutine [...] This possible
>> conflict is resolved by the SAVE and UNSAVE routines that use the
>> public push-down list.
>
> Perhaps we should put something about this in the `max-specpdl-size' doc
> string. You wouldn't happen to know what the "spec" part is referring
> to? :-)
I think that's from the Common Lisp term "special variable" for a global
(i.e. non-lexical) variable. I don't know where that term originated,
maybe Maclisp.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-28 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-26 1:48 `max-specpdl-size' and `max-lisp-eval-depth' Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-26 2:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-26 6:33 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-26 7:13 ` tomas
2021-09-26 11:26 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-26 11:55 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-26 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-26 15:01 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28 10:50 ` Stephen Berman
2021-09-28 11:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28 11:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28 11:20 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28 13:49 ` tomas
2021-09-28 14:08 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28 14:19 ` tomas
2021-09-28 11:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28 11:23 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2021-09-29 5:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-26 3:53 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-26 4:09 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28 3:45 ` Google vi (was: Re: [External] : `max-specpdl-size' and `max-lisp-eval-depth') Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-26 7:09 ` [External] : `max-specpdl-size' and `max-lisp-eval-depth' Hongyi Zhao
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87fstpt04p.fsf@gmx.net \
--to=stephen.berman@gmx.net \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=hongyi.zhao@gmail.com \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.