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bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound
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Stephen Berman |
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bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound |
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Sat, 25 Jun 2016 12:12:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 20:26:45 -0400 Noam Postavsky
<npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> I think we should be a little more specific, not
>>> just give examples, something like:
>>>
>>> Note that functions which take a symbol argument (like
>>> ‘symbol-value’, ‘boundp’, and ‘set’) can only retrieve or modify a
>>> variable’s dynamic binding (i.e., the contents of its symbol’s
>>> value cell).
>>
>> Be even more specific: A Lisp symbol is a dynamic thing.
>> It is an object. Lexical binding has nothing to do with symbols.
>> A given _name_ in code can sometimes be lexically bound.
>
> Hmm, this threatens to get a little philosophical, but that seems to
> contradict earlier text in the same node:
>
> Here is how lexical binding works. Each binding construct
> defines a “lexical environment”, specifying the symbols that are
> bound within the construct and their local values.
I think it's more a question of definition than philosophy: AFAIU using
the word "symbols" here is strictly speaking incorrect; it should be
"variables".
Steve Berman
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Tino Calancha, 2016/06/17
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/06/17
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/23
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Drew Adams, 2016/06/23
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/24
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound,
Stephen Berman <=
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/25
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Stephen Berman, 2016/06/25
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/25
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Stephen Berman, 2016/06/25
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/06/25
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/25
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/26
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Drew Adams, 2016/06/25
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Drew Adams, 2016/06/25
- bug#23781: 25.0.95; read-string with HIST lexically bound, Drew Adams, 2016/06/25