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Subject: Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2020 12:35:22 -0400
> 
> > Commit e08e0880f made lexical-binding be non-nil in more use cases,
> > but the NEWS entry doesn't say how to get back the old behavior.  Is
> > there a way of getting back the old behavior, say, for M-: or for
> > "--eval" options?
> 
> Not really, no.  You can do things like replacing `<foo>` with `(eval
> '<foo>)` or adding a bunch of `(defvar <bar>)`, but there's no
> config var to get back the old behavior.

And neither can one bind something in the form being evaluated,
AFAICS, right?  Isn't that a bit too harsh?