Re: Default lexical-binding to t

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Consider the plight of someone who over the years have accrued
> hundreds of lines of Lisp in their init and customization files, and
> now needs somehow to walk over all of that and see if anything needs
> changing, or risk breakage in something that has been working for
> eons.  It would be nice if we could help those poor souls, and not
> just hang them to dry.

They should likely add a `lexical-binding:nil` cookie and move on.

Of course, they can also change this cookie to `t` temporarily every
once in a while to see if it uncovers a problem or not, so the
conversion can be done bit by bit.


        Stefan