bug#27674: 26.0.50; cl-progv: strange scoping due to implementation

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:

> That explanation might be a little bit "infected" by my knowledge of how
> the compiler implements lexical binding, the manual carefully talks only
> in terms of the "evaluator":
>
>        Here is how lexical binding works.  Each binding construct defines a
>     "lexical environment", specifying the variables that are bound within
>     the construct and their local values.  When the Lisp evaluator wants
>     the current value of a variable, it looks first in the lexical environment. 
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think that's good enough.


Michael.