From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11862: [PATCH 8/9 v3] doc/lispref/intro.texi: More precise language for what a variable is Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:18:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <22f1c29cd7e44a3e91ca67e534dc03a4-mfwitten@gmail.com> <3c1c3c1cfe3840e19551bfd0424eb99d-mfwitten@gmail.com> <0c2cb6909a904ffeb3010bf4ca2e40b2-mfwitten@gmail.com> <85pq88c0nj.fsf@iznogoud.viz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341652748 21609 80.91.229.3 (7 Jul 2012 09:19:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 09:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11862@debbugs.gnu.org To: Wolfgang Jenkner Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 07 11:19:07 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 1SnRAR-0001GW-8J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:19:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38421 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnRAQ-0005tn-8O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnRAN-0005td-P2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:19:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnRAJ-0006CS-KJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:19:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnRAJ-0006C5-ET for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:18:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SnRFB-0000mC-Ua for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:24:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 09:24:01 +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=B11862.13416530282963 (code B ref 11862); Sat, 07 Jul 2012 09:24:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11862) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Jul 2012 09:23:48 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53854 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SnREx-0000lk-SC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:23:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:46483) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SnREv-0000ld-Sg for 11862@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:23:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnRA0-0006EW-6r; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:18:40 -0400 In-reply-to: <85pq88c0nj.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (message from Wolfgang Jenkner on Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:55:55 +0200) 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:61682 Archived-At: In Lisp, binding a variable and setting a variable are different operations. This binds the variable foo: (let (foo) ...) This sets the variable foo: (setq foo ...) If anything in our Lisp manuals makes this difference blurry, it ought to be fixed. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call