From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: sending function arguments to recursive function calls Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <79aa44a5-ca12-4f11-827c-c054d8994d01@default> References: <0F54256BD7B94384AC4DDA919D502C20@us.oracle.com><4D1DF48A7223443FA454C07B20B80E21@us.oracle.com> <87mwrt7py6.fsf@yandex.ru> <2AC6E6871319483CABA0387DEF8B39CC@us.oracle.com> <51990488.7000306@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369154108 15902 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2013 16:35:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 21 18:35:06 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UepWi-0007P7-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 18:35:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59554 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UepWh-0007V8-Aq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52247) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UepWW-0007Uu-Ly for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UepWR-0000hd-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:34:52 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:41821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UepWR-0000hA-BQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r4LGYgXf009589 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 21 May 2013 16:34:43 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r4LGYfcO016392 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 21 May 2013 16:34:41 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt115.oracle.com (abhmt115.oracle.com [141.146.116.67]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r4LGYemL017607; Tue, 21 May 2013 16:34:40 GMT In-Reply-To: <51990488.7000306@yandex.ru> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.7 (607090) [OL 12.0.6607.1000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90951 Archived-At: > 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 (3= 0 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 cohabi= tation of lexical and dynamic scoping. That's still the aim, AFAIU, and a = good one.