Re: Why looking-at-p works?

[Emanuel Berg]

Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> (defsubst looking-at-p (regexp) "\ Same as
> `looking-at' except this function does not
> change the match data." (let
> ((inhibit-changing-match-data t)) (looking-at
> regexp)))
>
> What happens is that if I make looking-at in
> the above code fail (e.g., by saying
> (looking-at-p 123)),
> inhibit-changing-match-data remains nil, even
> though there is no unwind-protect here.
> Why does it work like this?

Do you need dynamic scope for `let' to work
like that?

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