bug#24959: 26.0.50; cancel-timer: void-variable timer

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Oleg Sivokon <oleg.sivokon@elastifile.com> writes:

> No, I don't use lexical bindings in this code. But, my point is that
> the behavior of setq used to be to make variable special (i.e.
> universaly accessible, like global, except it can be let-bound
> temporarily), which it doesn't seem to do anymore.

It does for me.

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>>> (setq timer (run-at-time 1 1 (lambda () (cancel-timer timer)))

You've forgotten an end parentheses there.  If I add one and eval the
form, it works fine for me.

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