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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2020 15:39:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5zfetzfu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83imjebsrh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 08 Mar 2020 20:34:10 +0200")

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>> We could say that to recover the original behavior, instead of
>> 
>>     --eval "<foo>"
>>
>> the command could use
>>
>>     --eval "(eval '<foo>)"
>
> And the same for M-:?

Right.  These are not *good* solutions, but they're expedient.
A way to kick the can a bit further down (I hope the
non-lexical-binding mode will disappear before next century).

The right solution is to fix the code so it works correctly with
lexical-binding, which is usually a matter of adding a few `defvar`s or
`require`s, but it takes more effort and knowledge.

Of course, in the vast majority of cases the old code should work
identically with lexical-binding as it did before.


        Stefan




      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-08 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-07 11:29 lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 17:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 17:33     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 17:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 18:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 18:34           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 19:30             ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-08 19:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 19:56                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-08 20:06                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 20:15                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-11  2:59                       ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-11 12:44                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 23:41                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 23:41               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-09 20:10                 ` John Wiegley
2020-03-09 21:18                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-09 21:27                     ` Drew Adams
2020-03-09 21:43                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-09 22:30                     ` John Wiegley
2020-03-10 19:13                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 19:49                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-10 20:16                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 20:54                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-07 23:28                             ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-03-10 20:41                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 21:02                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-10 21:02                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 21:33                           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-11  3:22                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-10 21:14                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-10 21:53                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 23:41                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-11  1:36                             ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-11  2:02                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-13  0:46                                 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-11  3:06                             ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-11 12:47                               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-13  2:32                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-11  2:11                           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-11 22:39                           ` John Wiegley
2020-03-09 20:22                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-09 22:05                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 18:41                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 19:05                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 19:41                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 20:26                           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 20:44                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 21:30                               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-11  3:06                               ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-08 19:39             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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