From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PATCH: Explicitly show how let works on global-variables Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:31:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9381"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 23:41:56 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ogC9M-0002Ft-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 23:41:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33944 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogC9L-0007Mz-3m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:41:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogBzR-0006Oi-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogBzP-0005qh-PT; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:31:39 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=PmFZ13F3pbXqWDvywbAdzBETbojltfDoeT7LUZyimsc=; b=alD8vapYuEMh NJjGkREvXz0g/k116qxbTZmgzidWwJzoqrnBAjL5UZuXEqX3LXy2T/oZZT3IMAh/ZTjsJA5YU2HcS CQbfNls+/Fk+AhATBw+5Q2sh0vuKdMBgt5hwNUeK/mnv1OEntLWFTOCPsHtG+L0ty9ixgDPZvjQ8i AvCVCHW9E+tNWfJz5b9uihRaQ2Qwxvgo6iniNRvUPDAKNG/tPWPAzxyQveDY8IkaYiREIBovKcUYW VkmtrZbPz3/WcUh58Hb9JTPoHkMdEftlwsy3cZTEBoLGrxvZzSX2ghjuHH9UbvSR02VBACtVQUaNG +G1CLnmu4t+QQTfaleRKRw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogBzO-0003ms-K7; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:31:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Phil Sainty on Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:56:11 +1300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:297015 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)