From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30078: 27.0.50; Use lexical-binding for M-: Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:34:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87h8rsaz8z.fsf@web.de> <838td32afg.fsf@gnu.org> <83373a3o0i.fsf@gnu.org> <83zi5i26bi.fsf@gnu.org> <87fu7aer0i.fsf@web.de> <83y3l223gn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515983661 4146 195.159.176.226 (15 Jan 2018 02:34:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 02:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, 30078@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 15 03:34:17 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eaubD-0000P5-Ug for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:34:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaudD-00041k-Hl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:36:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50176) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaud1-0003zj-5P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:36:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaucz-0003JB-Uk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:36:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:48646) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaucz-0003Ix-RI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:36:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eaucz-0004AK-Ll for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:36:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 02:36:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 30078 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 30078-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B30078.151598371815961 (code B ref 30078); Mon, 15 Jan 2018 02:36:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30078) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Jan 2018 02:35:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56543 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eaucH-00049M-Qv for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:35:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58866) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eaucG-00049A-4G for 30078@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:35:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eauc9-0002Rr-J7 for 30078@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:35:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaubv-00027l-6C; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:34:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eaubu-000309-Kq; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:34:54 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:07:13 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:142162 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Lexical and dynamic binding each have their place in Lisp, > especially in Emacs Lisp. RMS underlined the importance > of dynamic binding for Emacs. Emacs must have dynamic binding, but that doesn't mean it needs to have a mode where dynamic binding is the default. It can be limited to the variables declared to be dynamic. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.