Re: master 48aacbf292 2/2: Make many seldom-used generalized variables obsolete

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2022 at 14:37, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> set-local just relies on set, so if the variable is let-bound, then the
>> "toplevel" local value is unchanged:
>>
>>    (progn (setq-local x 1)
>>           (let (x) (setq-local x 2))
>>           x)
>>    ==> 1
>>
>> I've had some trouble with this when a major mode (and therefore its
>> mode hook) is called from a place with let-bound variables.  But then
>> one could argue that working around it is even more problematic...
>
> But that's with the dynamic binding dialect -- with lexical binding, the
> setq-local ignores that binding.

True.