From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Deprecating 'lexical-binding: nil'
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:03:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mVpA0-0004i1-KN@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmndda2nWcH8T2e-BHTj7wt6O6qT=XyHN9T2cEqzfUBdTA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:09:43 -0700)
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> I agree. For the record, it was never my intention to suggest that we
> should rush to delete 'lexical-binding:nil'. My expectation is that it
> will be phased out at some point in the future when it is no longer
> really relevant.
We should never remove nonlexical mode. To remove it would break old
Emacs Lisp programs in a way that is very hard to fix. With most of
our incompatible changes, it is easy to find the things that need to
be fixed. So it is not such a big obstacle to running old programs.
This would make old programs useless.
Mere simplification can't justify that.
This is not a mere "novelty".
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-30 6:03 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
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 [this message]
2021-09-30 14:18 ` Steingold
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