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Re: What's the equivalent of `boundp' for lexical variables?


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: Re: What's the equivalent of `boundp' for lexical variables?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:36:09 +0000

Hello, Andreas.

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 22:25:58 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jan 26 2024, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > A symbol might have a lexical binding, it might not.  The problem is how
> > to test which one of these applies.

> A lexical variable does not have a name, and a symbol cannot have a
> lexical binding.

Lexical variables are manipulated by their names, symbols which refer to
them.

Thanks for being so helpful.  Maybe, just maybe, instead of insisting on
being pedantically correct, you might try to give the poster information
which would be useful to him.

> -- 
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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> "And now for something completely different."

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



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