From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: sending function arguments to recursive function calls
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:34:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79aa44a5-ca12-4f11-827c-c054d8994d01@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51990488.7000306@yandex.ru>
> Just recall that Emacs is on track to eventually replace dynamic scoping
> with lexical scoping everywhere, with exceptions for defvar'ed vars
> (controlled dynamic binding), and nobody is really arguing that Emacs
> will become too hard to customize as a result. Nobody reasonably
> well-informed, anyway.
Which is just to say that Emacs Lisp now aims to end up like Common Lisp (30 years later): lexical scoping unless the variable is "special" (which for Emacs Lisp means defvar'd, so far).
IOW, nothing new here. No rejection of dynamic scoping. Reasonable cohabitation of lexical and dynamic scoping. That's still the aim, AFAIU, and a good one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-21 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-04 13:01 sending function arguments to recursive function calls Gauthier Östervall
2013-05-04 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-07 11:25 ` Gauthier Östervall
2013-05-07 14:04 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-08 12:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-09 8:35 ` Gauthier Östervall
2013-05-09 12:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-12 13:19 ` Gauthier Östervall
2013-05-13 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-17 12:20 ` Gauthier Östervall
2013-05-17 12:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 14:31 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-19 16:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-21 16:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.70.1368982677.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-19 20:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-20 19:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
[not found] ` <mailman.94.1369078320.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-20 19:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-07 14:32 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.25279.1367935468.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-07 14:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-08 12:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-05 1:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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