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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-04-13 11:53:47 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-04-13 11:53:47 +0300 |
| commit | 1dfc497fac22c199a944ef64233266bd6cd2fee6 (patch) | |
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Minor wording change in Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
* doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Prevent confusion): Mention
that dynamic scoping is only the default in Emacs Lisp, not the
only scoping rule. (Bug#40594)
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diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi index 9e23f055f53..bd688070a3a 100644 --- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi +++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi @@ -3667,7 +3667,8 @@ automatically undone when the @code{let} is finished. The setting only affects expressions that are inside the bounds of the @code{let} expression. In computer science jargon, we would say the binding of a symbol is visible only in functions called in the @code{let} form; -in Emacs Lisp, scoping is dynamic, not lexical. +in Emacs Lisp, the default scoping is dynamic, not lexical. (The +non-default lexical binding is not discussed in this manual.) @code{let} can create more than one variable at once. Also, @code{let} gives each variable it creates an initial value, either a |