From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>, 66636@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:38:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvcyx95s9k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttql4yfq.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:09:45 +0800")
>> The warning about a missing lexical-binding cookie rather belongs in
>> the compiler than checkdoc, because it's not about documentation or
>> style but code generation and ability to detect errors, both which are
>> hindered by a missing cookie.
>>
>> Moving the warning to the compiler also makes it more widely seen.
>
> So long as this warning is only displayed within code part of Emacs
> itself, there are no valid objections to such a change.
>
> But you have instead elected to generate warnings whenever such files
> are byte-compiled. There exist many packages which do not enable
> lexical binding, whose authors have studiously elected not to: most of
> Drew Adams' for example. So this is tantamount to punitive action
> against their users, in the form of an unsightly warning each time such
> packages are installed.
No, it's just asking those authors to make the result of their studious
work explicit with
-*- lexical-binding: nil -*-
-- Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-20 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-19 11:48 bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-19 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-19 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-19 17:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-20 10:15 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-20 20:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-20 6:09 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-20 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-20 7:13 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-20 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-20 19:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-20 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-10-20 17:40 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-20 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 9:53 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-21 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 13:17 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-21 14:42 ` Drew Adams
2023-10-21 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-21 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-22 0:15 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-22 4:12 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-22 5:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-22 5:28 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-20 16:27 ` Drew Adams
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