From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Explicitly show how let works on global-variables
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:31:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ogBzO-0003ms-K7@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abb1cf5f7d21b75214ba09d50b9aca5a@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:56:11 +1300)
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Lexical binding was a fundamental change in Emacs Lisp.
I expect that it calls for a deep revision of the Emacs Lisp Intro
to clearly present lexical and dynamic binding.
I wish Bob Chassell were here to do it.
Do we know anyone else who can do this job well?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-05 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-04 6:46 PATCH: Explicitly show how let works on global-variables Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-10-04 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04 8:09 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-10-04 11:36 ` Phil Sainty
2022-10-04 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-04 22:22 ` Tim Cross
2022-10-05 5:28 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-10-06 9:00 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-10-06 19:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-04 17:39 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-04 7:59 ` tomas
2022-10-04 11:56 ` Phil Sainty
2022-10-04 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-05 21:31 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-10-04 15:00 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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