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27.0.50; Use lexical-binding for M-:

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Message #71 received at 30078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 30078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30078: 27.0.50; Use lexical-binding for M-:
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:37:09 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 30078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:05:58 -0500
> 
>    (let ((foopkg-var t))
>      (foopkg-fun arg1 arg2))
> 
> where foopkg is not yet loaded and foopkg-fun is autoloaded: Emacs will
> only be told that `foopkg-var` is a dynamic-variable once the
> `foopkg-fun` call causes `foopkg` to be loaded, so Emacs will mistakenly
> use lexical scoping for the let binding because at that it still knows
> nothing about `foopkg-var`.

That indeed could be a confusing situation, perhaps we should have a
special form for it, to avoid the confusing/incorrect/unexpected
results.

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