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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `pp-eval-expression' behaves strangely under lexical binding
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 12:15:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmvosb4do.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mvostie1.fsf@mbork.pl

> But isn't my question still valid for `symbol-value'?

No, whether it's implemented in C or in Lisp is irrelevant.  As soon as
you put a symbol into a `quote`, it can't be a reference to a lexical
variable any more because the compiler will treat it as data and data
cannot refer to lexical variables, only to other data.

Dynamically scoped variables are data, on the other hand (they're just
a particular field of a symbol object, which is a kind of "struct").


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-17 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-17 13:43 `pp-eval-expression' behaves strangely under lexical binding Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-17 14:33 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-17 16:15   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-04-17 17:42     ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-18 15:07     ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-18 15:58       ` Stefan Monnier

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