From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11862: [PATCH 8/9 v3] doc/lispref/intro.texi: More precise language for what a variable is Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:45:11 -0700 Message-ID: References: <22f1c29cd7e44a3e91ca67e534dc03a4-mfwitten@gmail.com><3c1c3c1cfe3840e19551bfd0424eb99d-mfwitten@gmail.com><0c2cb6909a904ffeb3010bf4ca2e40b2-mfwitten@gmail.com> <85pq88c0nj.fsf@iznogoud.viz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341593172 18303 80.91.229.3 (6 Jul 2012 16:46:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 16:46:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11862@debbugs.gnu.org, 'Richard Stallman' To: "'Wolfgang Jenkner'" , "'Michael Witten'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 18:46:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SnBfV-0002Aw-Th for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:46:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47369 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnBfU-0007KP-VT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnBfS-0007KK-2f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnBfQ-00035n-81 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnBfQ-00035X-5B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SnBkE-0001IY-Db for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11862 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 11862-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11862.13415934284945 (code B ref 11862); Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11862) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Jul 2012 16:50:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53029 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SnBjZ-0001Hb-C5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:37972) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SnBjW-0001HR-MI for 11862@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q66GjHr7016911 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 6 Jul 2012 16:45:18 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q66GjHQ0016412 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 6 Jul 2012 16:45:17 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt118.oracle.com (abhmt118.oracle.com [141.146.116.70]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q66GjGZ3024775; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 11:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.161.157) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:45:16 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <85pq88c0nj.fsf@iznogoud.viz> Thread-Index: Ac1blLQwdbpOp9buQ7apt9ZGsQ8WvwAAHQqg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:61655 Archived-At: > > binding is frequently referred to as setting, > > This is a bit misleading I agree. Binding and setting (assigning) are not the same. FWIW, here is Common Lisp on "assigning": http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node79.html and on "binding": http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node83.html#SECTION001150000000000 000000 And there is this, from the book "Successful Lisp": http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/chapter03-06.html