From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed changes to gnus-dup.el
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:33:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnqerh8z.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvef6u7vg9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:50:45 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> While looking into bug#34973, bug#34974, and bug#34987, I accumulated
>>> the attached changes to lisp/gnus/gnus-dup.el which I would like to push
>>> to master. WDYT?
>>
>> Given the games Gnus plays with bindings (see `defvoo' and `deffoo') the
>> switch to lexical binding for gnus may prove to be complex.
>>
>> It would be better to avoid switching to lexical binding for a single
>> file in gnus: rather, do that as part of a larger effort to switch all
>> of gnus over to lexical binding.
>
> FWIW, I've been compiling Gnus using lexical-binding for many years now,
> and it's the MUA I use to spam this mailing-list, so at least the main
> "read&write messages" works fine for the nnimap and nntp backends.
>
> I think the def[fv]oo hacks don't get in the way of
> lexical-binding at all.
Thank you for sharing your experience; it's reassuring.
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-25 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-25 3:55 Proposed changes to gnus-dup.el Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-25 15:59 ` Andy Moreton
2019-03-25 16:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-25 17:33 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-03-27 17:57 ` Andy Moreton
2019-03-27 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-31 21:47 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-25 17:33 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-25 17:55 ` Tadeus Prastowo
2019-03-25 18:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-25 18:14 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-25 17:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-03-25 18:13 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-25 18:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-25 18:27 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-01 23:43 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-03 1:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-03 1:59 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
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