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From: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Closures in Emacs and their usage scenarios.
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:58:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfxmjpnf.fsf@logand.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB5488E951FCEECAECAA400314F3A99@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 22:25, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> closures and dynamic binding does not go together well.
>
> Why do you say that?  Can you point to a problem,
> say, with Common Lisp, which was designed to have
> both since its inception?

Maybe I should have been more precise.  There is no problem with Common
Lisp it this regard.  Common Lisp has lexical binding.  Emacs Lisp did
not have lexical binding until recently.  Dynamic variables are not
closed over so you cannot create a closure if your lisp does not have
lexical binding.  There are still such lisps that do support dynamic
bindings only.  Try to create a closure in such Lisp and see the
workarounds.  The point I was trying to make, that closures might not be
used much in Emacs Lisp so far, because lexical binding is rather new
there, not because there are a few use-cases.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-30 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-27  9:40 Closures in Emacs and their usage scenarios Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28  2:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28  2:54   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28  6:46   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28  8:30     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28  8:54       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28 10:39         ` tomas
2021-09-28 11:29           ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28 13:31             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28 13:50               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28 13:57             ` tomas
2021-09-28 14:31               ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28 15:25                 ` tomas
2021-09-29  3:59                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-29  6:43   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28  2:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28  4:11   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-28  4:17     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28 11:53   ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-28 14:50     ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29  4:04       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-29  6:10         ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-09-29 12:28           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-29 22:11             ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-09-29 22:25               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-30 10:58                 ` Tomas Hlavaty [this message]
2021-09-30 14:55                   ` Drew Adams
2021-09-30 15:54                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-01  4:35                     ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29 23:06               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-30  0:59               ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-30  3:27                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-30 11:58                 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-09-30 13:27                   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-30 15:29                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-01 14:46               ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-29 23:26             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-01  3:37       ` Arthur Miller
2021-10-08 10:53         ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-10 14:16           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-10 18:25             ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-10-11 23:16               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-12  5:29                 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-10-12  5:32                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-03  9:07     ` Lisp books (was: Re: Closures in Emacs and their usage scenarios.) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-03 14:41       ` Lisp books Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-05 10:08         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-05 12:57           ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-05 14:18             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-06  1:43               ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-06  3:20                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-06  6:44                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-06  7:06                 ` tomas
2021-10-06 10:17                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-06 12:37                   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-06 12:54                     ` tomas
2021-10-06 20:24                       ` [OFFPTOPIC] ACM digital library (was: Lisp books) Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-06 20:56                         ` tomas
2021-10-07  6:29                           ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-07  9:10                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-07 12:42                             ` [OFFPTOPIC] ACM digital library Stefan Monnier
2021-10-12  5:44                         ` [OFFPTOPIC] ACM digital library (was: Lisp books) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-12 18:11                 ` Lisp books Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-03 15:39       ` [External] : Lisp books (was: Re: Closures in Emacs and their usage scenarios.) Drew Adams
2021-10-05 10:10         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-05 14:32           ` Drew Adams
2021-10-05 14:51             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28  7:11 ` Closures in Emacs and their usage scenarios Eduardo Ochs
2021-09-28  7:23   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28  7:33     ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-09-28  8:13   ` Hongyi Zhao

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