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bug#8460: 24.0.50; Doc string of `lexical-binding'


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#8460: 24.0.50; Doc string of `lexical-binding'
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:38:01 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> The problem is this: We say that it "applies to" a certain number of cases.
> That begs the question, "What does it _not_ apply to?"

> IOW, why don't we just say this?

>  "Non-nil means use lexical binding when evaluating code."

We could indeed.  Tho I think a better docstring could be:

   Non-nil means that the code in the current buffer should be evaluated
   with lexical binding.


-- Stefan





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