Re: [PATCH 06/10] add most lisp-level features

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

I'm not really trying to continue this sub-thread more than it needs to
be...

Tom> Yet one more observation here.  The Bordeaux approach lets you specify
Tom> which bindings to capture.

Stefan> AFAIK, you can easily do that manually with the "no capture" behavior
Stefan> as well.

All I could think of is backquote, which seems pretty gross.

  (make-thread
    `(lambda ()
       (let ((default-directory ,default-directory))
         ...)))

I'm not really a fan of the Bordeaux approach either though.
Better to have a convenience macro, I think.

Tom> Maybe everything important really will use lexical binding.

Stefan> At least the `make-thread' code will likely be in a lexical-binding
Stefan> file, yes.

It occurs to me now that even lexically bound code will use some
variables which are always dynamic.  It still seems odd not to capture
these.

Tom