From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Declaring 'lexical-binding: nil' obsolete
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:55:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o88guju6.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmyGwsPcfOHGtLdUYMtJRfE09_BP5FZwrLRy3PQoQh63Q@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sat, 25 Sep 2021 19:37:06 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> I disagree; the warning is clear.
The problem is not something that a byte compiler warning will solve.
Updating the documentation will do much more to solve that, than a
byte-compiler warning.
> Where the documentation is not yet updated to recommend lexical binding,
> it should be fixed.
Yes, agreed.
>> But why does the NEWS entry you have proposed include:
>>
>> Third-party code will need to be changed to support
>> 'lexical-binding:t' to run properly on Emacs in the future.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Because this is true if the plan is to change the default.
So in the future, dynamically bound code (lexical-binding: nil) must
also work with lexical binding (lexical-binding: t)?
That amounts to a removal of the dynamically bound variant of Emacs
Lisp.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-26 2:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-25 22:47 Declaring 'lexical-binding: nil' obsolete Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25 23:17 ` Po Lu
2021-09-26 0:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-26 0:13 ` Po Lu
2021-09-26 0:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-26 1:20 ` Po Lu
2021-09-26 2:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-26 2:55 ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-09-26 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-26 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-26 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-25 23:56 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-09-26 0:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-26 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-26 6:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-27 22:35 ` Deprecating 'lexical-binding: nil' Richard Stallman
2021-09-27 23:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28 1:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-30 6:03 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-30 14:18 ` Steingold
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