On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> >  Also, the code in the body of a ‘defun’ or
>> >  ‘defmacro’ cannot refer to surrounding lexical variables.
>
>
> This seems a bit unclear to me.  It sounds like something like this
> would not work:
>
> ;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
> (let ((x 1))
>   (defun f () x))
>
> (f) ==> 1

That's indeed what it meant, but this restriction was lifted sometime
after 24.1, see
http://help-gnu-emacs.gnu.narkive.com/uspqRdsq/surrounding-lexical-variable-reference-in-the-body-of-defun
and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12026137/emacs-the-code-in-the-body-of-a-defun-or-defmacro-cannot-refer-to-surrounding-l.
Updated patch to remove that sentence.