From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Static Scoping versus Dynamic Scoping Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:44:22 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1179043947.214708.291260@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181451776 29043 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2007 05:02:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:02:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 07:02:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HxFZm-0007Xw-MN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:02:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxFZm-0002tu-B2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:02:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxFZS-0002tp-DT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxFZR-0002td-I6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxFZR-0002ta-E7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HxFZQ-00037C-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HxFZN-0003XV-O6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:02:29 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.189.196.233 ([207.189.196.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:02:29 +0200 Original-Received: from tromey by 207.189.196.233 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:02:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.189.196.233 X-Attribution: Tom User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nu2UyCS8zbE/Ylh4xsIjcRYa2Ak= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44832 Archived-At: >>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: >> I read somewhere that in the future dynamic scoping of variables in Emacs >> Lisp will be replaced with static scoping. Stefan> You're confused. There is some work going on which attempts Stefan> to *add* static scoping (more seriously than provided by CL's Stefan> lexical-let macro). But there's no intention to drop dynamic Stefan> scoping: it would break about 99% of existing Lisp code. I'm curious about this. I know about the branch for this but I haven't seen any discussion about merging it to the main line... Tom