bug#18059: 24.3.92; defvar and special variables

[Noam Postavsky]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> I think the term to use here might be "lexical scope" rather than
> "lexical environment" [ usually, an "environment" refers to a list of
> bindings, whereas "scope" refers to an area of the program.  ]

So does "end of the current lexical scope" make sense?  I think I've
been looking at this for too long, it's hard for me to tell by now.

    Likewise, you can tell the compiler that a variable is defined using
    @code{defvar} with no initial value.  (Note that this marks the
    variable as special, i.e.@: dynamically bound, but only until the end
    of the current lexical scope, or file if at top-level.)