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Re: Doc string of defvar
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Noam Postavsky |
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Re: Doc string of defvar |
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Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:44:49 -0400 |
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 22:35, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> The doc string of defvar should say it makes the variable special
> (every binding is dynamic, not lexical).
It does.
defvar is a special form in ‘src/eval.c’.
[...] The ‘defvar’ form also declares the variable as "special",
so that it is always dynamically bound even if ‘lexical-binding’ is t.