>>>>> "RMS" == Richard Stallman writes: RMS> How and why? Things like buffer-local variables are concepts broken RMS> in principle in Emacs Lisp. Moving to Scheme is a chance to correct RMS> these historic mistakes. RMS> We seem to have very basic disagreements. It is not likely I would RMS> agree with recommendations that you make on this issue. Is it possible to have a discussion on this? RMS> Check out R5RS. For example, at: RMS> http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-9.html#%_idx_576 RMS> I will try to send email to fetch this. I've included the text verbatim.