From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: lexical-binding rationale? Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:47:35 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326387007 9568 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2012 16:50:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:50:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 12 17:50:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RlNqh-0000n8-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:49:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlNqh-0005rR-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:49:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37033) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlNqZ-0005r6-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:49:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlNqY-0004R9-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:49:51 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlNqY-0004Qy-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:49:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RlNqW-0000hY-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:49:48 +0100 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:49:48 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:49:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:huRro/VCmV4GG9ylaHugizJ6Jd8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147623 Archived-At: I'm sure this has been discussed to death, so please feel free to respond with a link, but... can anyone point me to a rationale for dynamically altering such a fundamental language behavior on the basis of a variable's value? Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com