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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Declaring 'lexical-binding: nil' obsolete
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 07:17:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1dcw8hp.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkDC1S2RFXPS5uhcGFVgo0xzzMx+FEAgAgX8t9a3GHOBQ@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:47:45 -0700")

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Lexical binding has been with us since Emacs 24.1, released on
> 2012-06-10, almost ten years ago.  In Emacs 28.1, we will have no files
> that do not use lexical-binding.[1]
>
> I think it is time to formally declare the "lexical-binding:nil" dialect
> of Emacs Lisp obsolete.

But countless amounts of user code might be made obsolete by this
change, including a great deal of my own.  And I (and presumably other
people) will have no time to adjust to this change.

Even if it is obsoleted at some point, it is IMO very premature to do
right now.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-25 23:17 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 [this message]
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
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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