From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default lexical-binding to t
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:20:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861pzos2he.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh68kv0vo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:32:10 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:32:10 -0500
>
> > Can you tell what are the benefits of turning on lexical-binding by
> > default, relative to what we have now?
>
> IME, nowadays lexbind is the "de facto" default used for all
> new ELisp code, including code snippets posted around the web.
> So using dynbind when there's no cookie is often a source of errors
> and confusion.
Thanks, but I asked about specifics, not in general. And this was the
less important part of my question; you elided the more important
parts.
I'm trying to find a way of moving forward with this while minimizing
objections and complaints, so please help me finding the auxiliary
measures which will make this possible and hopefully less painful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-11-06 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-01 12:55 Default lexical-binding to t Stefan Monnier
2024-11-01 14:42 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-11-01 17:03 ` Karl Fogel
2024-11-02 10:48 ` Visuwesh
2024-11-02 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-02 13:21 ` Visuwesh
2024-11-02 16:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-02 20:42 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-02 21:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-03 2:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-03 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03 14:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-04 8:35 ` Jean Louis
2024-11-04 8:43 ` tomas
2024-11-03 1:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03 2:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-03 7:47 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-03 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03 6:44 ` Sean Whitton
2024-11-03 14:59 ` lexical-binding in paredit Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03 18:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-03 21:44 ` Taylor R Campbell
2024-11-04 1:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03 15:26 ` Default lexical-binding to t Andrea Corallo
2024-11-07 3:46 ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-07 23:00 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-11-08 15:53 ` Sebastián Monía
2024-11-08 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 17:28 ` Sebastián Monía
2024-11-08 17:37 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-08 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 20:18 ` Sebastián Monía
2024-11-08 20:57 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-11-11 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-04 5:34 ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-04 9:39 ` Po Lu
2024-11-04 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-04 17:06 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-04 18:24 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-11-06 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-07 23:07 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-11-04 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-05 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-06 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-06 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-11-06 17:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-06 20:48 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-06 22:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-07 0:46 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-07 21:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-08 0:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-10 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-07 6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-07 8:07 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-07 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-07 11:09 ` tomas
2024-11-07 21:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-07 22:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-11-08 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 14:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-08 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 19:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-08 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-07 22:10 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-11-08 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-07 2:55 ` Sean Whitton
2024-11-06 17:54 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-06 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 20:23 ` John Yates
2024-11-08 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 19:53 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2024-11-08 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-07 3:46 ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-07 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-07 3:46 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-11-07 22:28 Christopher Howard
2024-11-08 0:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-08 6:29 ` tomas
2024-11-10 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-08 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 12:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-08 13:12 ` Suhail Singh
2024-11-08 13:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-08 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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