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bug#18059: 24.3.92; defvar and special variables


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: bug#18059: 24.3.92; defvar and special variables
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:44:23 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

> This let-block thing feels more like a bug to me, so I'm inclined to
> leave it out of the manual.

Maybe somebody could clarify the rationale behind the behavior?

It would not be good to leave this undocumented - it is something people
actually do.


> I'm also not so sure about putting in examples into the manual; the
> shortest and simplest I could come up with is this, but I don't know
> that it's worth putting in.
>
>     This example demonstrates the effects of using @code{defvar} without
>     an initial value:
>
>     @example
>     @group
>     (let ((x 'lexical))
>       (defun get-lexical-x ()
>         x))
>     (defvar x)
>     (defun get-dynamic-x ()
>       x)
>
>     (let ((x 'dynamic))
>       (list (get-dynamic-x)
>             (get-lexical-x)))
>          @result{} (dynamic lexical)
>     @end group
>     @end example

Obviously I would like something like this being added.


Michael.





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