From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com,
"Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>,
stefankangas@gmail.com, 66636@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 11:44:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpm183rxj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831qdorzqe.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 21 Oct 2023 14:17:45 +0300")
> If specifying lexical-binding:nil in the first line is the solution
> for those who want to keep dynamically-bound code, then yes, it should
> be definitely in NEWS, and probably also in the ELisp manual.
FWIW, I think this would be a disservice to them (and to ourselves).
In 99% of the cases it's just as easy to make the code work with
`lexical-binding:t`.
We do want to allow people to silence the warning with
`lexical-binding:nil`, but we don't want to encourage it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-21 15:44 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
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 [this message]
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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