Re: `max-specpdl-size' and `max-lisp-eval-depth'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

>> Perhaps we should put something about this in the `max-specpdl-size' doc
>> string.  You wouldn't happen to know what the "spec" part is referring
>> to?  :-)
>
> I think that's from the Common Lisp term "special variable" for a global
> (i.e. non-lexical) variable.  I don't know where that term originated,
> maybe Maclisp.

Thanks; I've now mentioned this in the doc string in Emacs 28.