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From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 44733@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44733: Nested let bindings for non-local DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER variables unwind wrong
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 15:56:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tutljca1.fsf@catern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh7pl5cff.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> This is a bug, indeed.  It should be 123 at this point.
>> That's one perspective, but it seems less consistent with the
>> documentation and with expected behavior.
>
> That's the way all other variables behave:
>
>     (defvar-local sm-foo 1)
>     (let ((sm-foo 23))
>       (setq sm-foo 45)
>       (list sm-foo
>             (with-temp-buffer sm-foo)))

Aha, okay, I certainly can't argue with that.  DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER
variables should match that behavior.  I'll update my patch series to
match.

> and I think it's asking for trouble if
>
>     (let ((sm-foo 23))
>       ...)
>
> behaves differently from
>
>     (let (sm-foo)
>       (setq sm-foo 23)
>       ...)

Ah, this example is persuasive to me.

I see also that there is at least some documentation of this behavior,
in the make-variable-buffer-local documentation in variables.texi, which
I missed:

  A peculiar wrinkle of this feature is that binding the variable (with
  @code{let} or other binding constructs) does not create a buffer-local
  binding for it.  Only setting the variable (with @code{set} or
  @code{setq}), while the variable does not have a @code{let}-style
  binding that was made in the current buffer, does so.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19  3:11 bug#44733: Nested let bindings for non-local DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER variables unwind wrong Spencer Baugh
2020-11-19 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-19 14:22   ` Spencer Baugh
2020-11-19 18:17   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-19 19:21     ` Spencer Baugh
2020-11-19 20:23       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-19 20:56         ` Spencer Baugh [this message]
2020-11-19 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-23 10:19   ` Stefan Kangas

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