From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: e and pi
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:00:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlj6z9h5s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tylnf64z.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:01:00 +0200")
> This is my understanding: You want bindings to behave like in Common
> Lisp, and have all special variables (i.e., things that have been
> defined with defvar) to have dynamic scope (like today), and have all
> the rest have lexical bindings. And the problem is that some variables
> (well, constants) like `e' and `pi' are likely to be used by people in
> bindings, so they'll get dynamic bindings where they don't expect it.
> Is that a fair summary?
Yes.
> (Although I don't really see how not using function arguments as dynamic
> bindings really help much, but I agree that it's confusing.)
It's only remotely related, indeed.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-18 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 13:25 e and pi Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 13:44 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-16 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 13:47 ` Leo
2010-09-16 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 14:27 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-16 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 18:52 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-16 14:44 ` Jason Rumney
2010-09-16 22:54 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-17 0:04 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-17 0:14 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-17 7:00 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-17 8:09 ` Simon Leinen
2010-09-17 8:15 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-17 9:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-17 9:21 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-17 9:47 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-17 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 15:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-17 15:56 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-17 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 15:44 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-17 15:50 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-17 16:06 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-17 16:18 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-17 16:45 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-17 17:14 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-18 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 10:21 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-18 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 11:26 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-18 10:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-18 11:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 14:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-18 14:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-09-18 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-17 22:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 1:10 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-18 8:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 19:10 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-18 21:37 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-19 0:57 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 13:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-09-18 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 15:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-09-19 10:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-09-17 16:14 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 15:12 ` tomas
2010-09-18 17:52 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 19:13 ` tomas
2010-09-17 23:35 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-17 16:55 ` Sam Steingold
2010-09-17 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 22:55 ` Drew Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-17 4:20 MON KEY
2010-09-18 5:58 MON KEY
2010-09-18 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-19 2:03 ` MON KEY
2010-09-18 16:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
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