Re: run-with-timer does not display message

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Because they can be encoded different things it
>> makes sense calling this lexical (because the value
>> is simply read, not looked up) and not "static".
>
> It's also called "static scoping".  And the name
> doesn't have much to do with the implementation
> technique used.  It's called "lexical" because the way
> a particular identifier use is matched to a particular
> variable only depends on the shape of the program text
> rather than depending on its run-time behavior.
>
> ...
>
> No.  CBV/CBR/CBN are orthogonal concepts to
> static/dynamic scoping.

Isn't CBR and dynamic alike in the sense than a value
is looked up somewhere outside of the "scope", say a
function in C, while CBV is lexical as the parameter is
just a way to refer to a value for convenience?

I don't know what CBN (call by name?) is but that in
the above sense would be dynamic as the name, once put
to use, is replaced by a value and that value has to be
looked up at that time.

If a reference is used as a reference, i.e., ignoring
what it refers to, then of course it is all the
same. It has to be looked up but otherwise why do it at
all?

>> 1. How do I put Emacs in lexical mode? Do I do that
>
> Put -*- lexical-binding:t -*- somewhere on the first
> line of your Elisp file.

So you can't do it for a specific function? I'm
starting to lean toward me preferring the backtick-comma
solution...

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