From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar' Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 08:06:50 +0300 Message-ID: References: <871r9ly7v3.fsf@web.de> <87r1hlw6pn.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39029"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 02 07:08:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1loJ73-0009zm-SI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 07:08:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52260 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1loJ72-0002co-Ts for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 01:08:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1loJ6W-0002cQ-7L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 01:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:48561) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1loJ6U-0004gl-Gi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 01:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.35]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000AE2D9.0000000060B7121B.00004D0B; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 22:07:38 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Dimech , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130489 Archived-At: * Christopher Dimech [2021-06-02 07:56]: > Then, ultimately, there will not be any dynamic binding? Just to say, I hope not. On the other hand I don't think it would be good, or friendly to simply enforce it over all of the Emacs Lisp, and thus people as programmers. > From my point of view, the docstring should have nothing to do with > either dynamic or lexical binding. Definitely, it is one of weirdest encounters, totally out of habits within Lisp. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/