* Default lexical-binding to t
@ 2024-11-01 12:55 Stefan Monnier
2024-11-01 14:42 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-11-01 17:03 ` Karl Fogel
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2024-11-01 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
In bug#74145 I suggest that it is time to change the default of
`lexical-binding` to t. Clearly this is a breaking change, but only for
those files which:
- Don't have a `lexical-binding` cookie.
- Have code which happens to behave differently under the new dialect
(such code is not rare, but a lot of code works identically in the
two dialects).
I believe by the time Emacs-31 will be released, such files will be
uncommon, and it is easy to fix them (either by adjusting he code, or
by slapping a `lexical-binding` cookie).
Stefan
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* Re: Default lexical-binding to t
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
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From: Gerd Möllmann @ 2024-11-01 14:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> In bug#74145 I suggest that it is time to change the default of
> `lexical-binding` to t. Clearly this is a breaking change, but only for
> those files which:
>
> - Don't have a `lexical-binding` cookie.
> - Have code which happens to behave differently under the new dialect
> (such code is not rare, but a lot of code works identically in the
> two dialects).
>
> I believe by the time Emacs-31 will be released, such files will be
> uncommon, and it is easy to fix them (either by adjusting he code, or
> by slapping a `lexical-binding` cookie).
+1
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* Re: Default lexical-binding to t
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
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From: Karl Fogel @ 2024-11-01 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel
On 01 Nov 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>In bug#74145 I suggest that it is time to change the default of
>`lexical-binding` to t. Clearly this is a breaking change, but
>only for
>those files which:
>
>- Don't have a `lexical-binding` cookie.
>- Have code which happens to behave differently under the new
>dialect
> (such code is not rare, but a lot of code works identically in
> the
> two dialects).
>
>I believe by the time Emacs-31 will be released, such files will
>be
>uncommon, and it is easy to fix them (either by adjusting he
>code, or
>by slapping a `lexical-binding` cookie).
+1 It's time.
Anecdata, but: a lot of the random Emacs packages I encounter in
the wild lately have `lexical-binding` cookies already (and
usually to t anyway). Most recently
https://github.com/kmonad/kbd-mode/blob/master/kbd-mode.el, for
example. No doubt there are also many that don't, but I think
knowledge about the new dialect is diffused widely enough now that
when Emacs' default switches over, some user of a given package
will quickly recognize what's going on and submit the appropriate
change to that package; in a few cases I have done so myself.
Best regards,
-Karl
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