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31.0.50; Todo mode bug revealed by setq-default change

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Message #19 received at 78608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 78608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78608: 31.0.50; Todo mode bug revealed by setq-default change
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 18:53:50 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>,  78608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 11:05:08 -0400
> 
>  * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 31.1
>  
> +** 'setq-local' computes the value before making the variable local.
> +The previous code made the variable buffer local before
> +computing the value to assign to it.
> +This bug fix is a subtle change to the semantics which should make
> +no difference to the vast majority of uses but can occasionally affect
> +code in surprising ways if the computation of the value refers to the
> +variable.

I think this should describe the case upon which Stephen stumbled:
code which uses setq-local inside a let-binding (perhaps an implicit
one, such as the one the various with-SOMETHING macros do), and
expects the buffer-local value to stay after the let-binding is
exited.

I'd remove the last sentence entirely, because it is not useful.

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