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From: Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is Elisp's defvar weird? And is eval_sub broken?
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:39:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <NPPZKgS8Ak06TvPZ5QFTfWKUdu8ntcKMEfdCiWPOD6l@local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva90e5n6w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Using the same identifiers sometimes as a lexical var and sometimes as
> a dynamic var is evil for the poor human reader.  Si I have no intention
> to try and refine the semantics of such cases.

So the local-specialness feature is intended exclusively to be a workaround for the problem of non-prefixed symbols, not intended for any other purpose?

In that case, should desktop-first-buffer, desktop-buffer-ok-count, and desktop-buffer-fail-count be given init values to prevent local specialness, so that code outside desktop.el that calls desktop functions that use those variables doesn't have to do defvar on them?



  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-17 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-12 21:32 Why is Elisp's defvar weird? And is eval_sub broken? Kelly Dean
2015-02-13 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-14  7:35   ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-14 14:36     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-15 14:17       ` Daniel Colascione
2015-02-16  5:42       ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-16  7:40         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-17 23:39           ` Kelly Dean [this message]
2015-02-18 22:29             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-19 10:32               ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-19 13:23                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20  0:11                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-20  2:02                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-22  4:11                       ` Proposal for a closed-buffer tracker Kelly Dean
2015-02-22 15:53                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-22 22:03                           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-22 22:23                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-02-23 13:53                               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-23 16:44                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-22 21:59                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-28 10:15                         ` Artur Malabarba

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