GNU bug report logs - #66756
30.0.50; [PATCH] Improve discussion of 'let' in Elisp Introduction manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 05:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 30.0.50

Fixed in version 29.2

Done: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 66756 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org, 66756 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66756: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Improve discussion of 'let' in Elisp
 Introduction manual
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 15:05:55 -0800
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 11/19/2023 12:17 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> On 11/19/2023 12:38 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
>> Would it be worth to emphasize, that a declaration of x changes this?
>> That is, when a variable is declared, both lexical and dynamic binding
>> behave identically.
> 
> Thanks, that's probably a good idea. We should mention this in the 
> section that introduces 'defvar'. I'll work on adding that.

Ok, what about this? I just added a mention to the 'defvar' section 
about this, and cross-referenced the two sections.
[0001-Introduce-let-using-lexical-binding-in-the-Lisp-Intr.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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