From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
Cc: 74145@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74145: 31.0.50; Default lexical-binding to t
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:10:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1tS76W-0006pi-Fm@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F0363CED-9B81-4413-8022-AF1CCBED0EAF@gmail.com> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:40:00 +0100)
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> > for the old dynamic-only dialect. When no declaration is present the
> > -old dialect is used, but this may change in a future release.
> > -The compiler will warn if no declaration is present.
> > +new dialect is used. Support for the old dialect may be removed in
> > +a future release.
We should delete that last sentence.
It would be a mistake to delete support for lexical-binding: nil, even
20 years from now.
To convert a program from dynamic binding to lexical binding is not a
trivial transformatoin -- it requires actually understanding the code.
It would be bad judgment to require people to do that work for their
old programs merely to simplify one small piece of the language.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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2024-10-31 20:57 bug#74145: 31.0.50; Default lexical-binding to t Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-31 23:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-01 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-01 2:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-01 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-01 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-01 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-04 5:33 ` Richard Stallman
2024-12-28 17:40 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-12-30 4:10 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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