;; here is code to test by, description in comments (require 'cl) ;; lexical let is supposed to use fake lexical binding ;; to imitate closure behavior in CL ;; so, this in emacs lisp: (apply (lexical-let ((x 3) (y 4)) (lambda (x) (+ x y))) '(1)) ;; in EL returns 7 ;; should behave like this in CL (apply (let ((x 3) (y 4)) (lambda (x) (+ x y))) '(1)) ;; in CL returns 5 (SBCL) ;; however in emacs lisp, the lambda arg x is forgetton and ;; the lexical-let bound x is used in the lambda, not the arg. I assume this is not the desired behavior. In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.2.9200 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2' Important settings: value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: d SPC b a h a e h a v e SPC l i k e SPC t h i s SPC i n SPC C : l L C-n C-n C-e ; ; SPC h o w e v e r SPC i n SPC e m a c s SPC l i s p , SPC t h e SPC l a m b d a SPC a r e g SPC x SPC i s SPC f o r g e t t o n SPC a n d ; ; SPC t h e SPC l e x i c a l - l e t SPC b o u n d SPC x SPC i s SPC u s e d SPC i n SPC t h e SPC l a m b d a . C-p C-p C-e C-p C-e SPC ; ; SPC i n SPC C L S-SPC r e t u r n s SPC 5 C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-e SPC ; ; SPC i n SPC E L SPC r e t u r n s SPC 7 C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-e SPC n o t SPC t h e SPC a r g . C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b , C-e M-x C-g C-p C-p C-p C-e SPC ( S B C L ) C-n C-n C-n C-n C-e M-x e m a c s - b u r e C-a C-k r e p o r Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Quit Entering debugger... Back to top level. Mark set [3 times] Quit Making completion list... [2 times] Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cl-macs gv cl cl-lib help-mode easymenu debug time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process w32 multi-tty emacs)