From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18059: 24.3.92; defvar and special variables Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:09:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ha2c7lxy.fsf@web.de> <87mv0gbq33.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87y3k0bdm9.fsf@web.de> <87inb4bbse.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <873727bkud.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87efloa000.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87fu5y53w5.fsf@gmail.com> <87371xlpmw.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519225697 30458 195.159.176.226 (21 Feb 2018 15:08:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18059@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 21 16:08:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eoW0C-0007QC-C9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 21 Feb 2018 07:09:09 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.74.59.65 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Feb 2018 07:09:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87371xlpmw.fsf@web.de> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:143552 Archived-At: On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Noam Postavsky writes: > >> This let-block thing feels more like a bug to me, so I'm inclined to >> leave it out of the manual. > > Maybe somebody could clarify the rationale behind the behavior? > > It would not be good to leave this undocumented - it is something people > actually do. Can I ask them to stop? ;) Seriously though, I honestly can't see much use for a non-toplevel defvar. Can you point to any examples?