Subject: bug#50195: [PATCH] Adding diary-offset, a diary-sexp offsetting another diary-sexp.

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:22:04 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> > It's how all these functions in diary-lib are defined after the lexical
> > rewrite -- the `eval' depends on those dynamic variables.
>
> Ugh!  Is it worth it?  If we cannot convert these functions to use
> lexical-binding, maybe we should say lexical-binding: nil in the first
> line of the file, and remove all those gross kludges?

That would not work, you would still get warnings about free variables.

This case is a bit special and not directly related to lexical-binding
because these variables are just not declared with `defvar' (and I think
we don't want to introduce global variables like `date').

Michael.