Re: Trying to cope with Calendar's dynamic scoping

[Stefan Monnier]

>> But it means we have to keep using dynamic scoping for `date' and
>> `entry', for now.
> Well, it has to be done at some point, doesn't it?
> And can't you have code which works in either version just by using
>   (if (boundp 'diary-date) diary-date date)
> ?

Right.  My patch does provide diary-date and diary-entry, so code
can/should start doing the above, but we should keep the old code
working a bit longer by also providing the old names via dynamic scoping
(since lexical scoping is not quite sufficient for that).


        Stefan