Re: lexical-binding rationale?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Maybe it's fine the way it is.  My impression was that it was going to
> be affected by a local variable setting in the current buffer, but IIUC
> it is a local variable setting in the buffer from which elisp is being
> read (? this isn't entirely clear—and it should be—from the
> documentation).

Right.  The variable is looked up when calling `eval', not when
processing let-bindings.  So indeed it is the value in the buffer from
which the code was `read' that is important, rather than the value in
the buffer that happens to be current when a new binding is created.


        Stefan