Re: closure within closure, incorrect (?) byte-compiler warnings

[Michael Heerdegen]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> This sums it up ... three bugs?

> ;; 1. Byte compiler warnings (two cases) relating to the
> ;;    interactive spec:
> ;;
> ;;    geh.el:7:1: Warning: Unused lexical variable `more-data'
> ;;    geh.el:10:54: Warning: reference to free variable ‘data-item’
> ;;    geh.el:10:64: Warning: reference to free variable ‘more-data’
> ;;
> ;; 2. When the compiled version is used interactively:
> ;;
> ;;    Symbol's value as variable is void: data-item

These are all symptoms of one and the same issue: the interactive spec
currently can't refer to outer lexical variables.  The warnings are
actually legitimate, they only warn about this limitation.  So: one bug
(there was no Bug #3 in your list btw).

Michael.