From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#67734: 30.0.50; Don't mention `set` in the ELisp intro Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:06:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13960"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: 67734@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 16 19:07:22 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1rEZ4L-0003SF-QX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:06:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from pastel (65-110-221-238.cpe.pppoe.ca [65.110.221.238]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08406120E6B; Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:06:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:30:45 -0800") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:276370 Archived-At: >> The ELisp intro needs to be updated to the world of static scoping. >> I haven't really looked at doing that, but the patch below can be >> considered as a step in that direction. >> In any case, I think it's a good change on its own. >> >> It removes all mentions of the `set` function. >> `set` cannot be used on statically scoped variables and I can't see what >> it brings to the reader of the ELisp intro (except maybe for explaining >> the "q" in `setq`) to first tell them about `set` only to turn around >> and tell them they'll never use it. >> >> Suggestions for improvements welcome, > > LGTM. If it's worth doing, it should be worth doing also on emacs-29, > I think. I'm fine with `emacs-29`, yes. > Is it worth reflowing the paragraphs before installing though? Will do. Stefan