Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup]

[Rusi]

On Saturday, January 18, 2014 10:12:26 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Rusi writes:

> > lexical vs dynamic and what not are above my head

> In general, it is not difficult, though perhaps you
> meant at a higher level.

> dynamic: whenever something is mentioned, that is
> looked up (so what it is depends on *when* it is looked
> up, that is the "dynamic"/time part)

> lexical: everything is encoded at some point, and what
> you change after that, even if that influenced during
> encoding, does not affect what has been encoded -
> lexical, as in a heap of text

> This sounds like a big deal but you never notice this
> distinction. At least I don't.

Yeah I know the theory
However if you see the parallel thread "Impossible to set org mode variable"
it is almost analogous to this scenario:

You have C code like this:

int x;
x = 3;
printf("%d\n" x);

and instead of seeing 3 you see 42!!

Now how much this is due to 
- dynamic vs static
- unexpected autoload cookie sequencing
- recent library churn

Ive not been able to figure out