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From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp
Date: 29 Apr 2003 13:23:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfk7ddmr07.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: usms17egt.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de

>>>>> "os" == Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

  os> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> writes: [...]
  >> However, it has some peculiarities that many people find
  >> disconcerting.  For instance -- all variables have dynamic scope,
  >> which is somewhat unusual these days.
  os> [...]

  os> AFAIK Miles Bader is working on a branch (“lexbind”) where he's
  os> implementing lexical scoping. But I have not found the time to
  os> check it out, yet, and I hope I don't spread misinformation. I
  os> hope that will get us closures, too.


I thought that CL already implemented lexical binding? At least within
a let form (or "lexical-let"). 

If emacs just went to using lexical binding in the large, I suspect
that it would cause lots of problems with existing packages. I have
used dynamic scoping to achieve ends in the past, which might be a bit
nasty, but it does work!

Cheers

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-29 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5343.1051607007.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-29 10:22 ` Differences between Elisp and Lisp Friedrich Dominicus
2003-04-29 10:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-04-29 10:35   ` David Kastrup
2003-04-29 11:03   ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-29 12:23     ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2003-04-29 14:17       ` Thomas Link
2003-04-29 15:43         ` Kent M Pitman
2003-04-29 15:56           ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 16:44             ` Kent M Pitman
2003-04-29 17:16               ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 18:41                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 12:39                   ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-30 13:12                     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 18:07                     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-04-29 18:59             ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-30 12:43               ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 17:01       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 23:02   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-01  5:22     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-01  5:41       ` Friedrich Dominicus
2003-05-01  5:54         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-01  6:37           ` [OT] " Friedrich Dominicus
     [not found] ` <yoijznm9y5yr.fsf@bilbo.dd.chalmers.se>
2003-04-29 13:45   ` Kent M Pitman
2003-04-29 15:23     ` Nicolas Neuss
2003-04-29 15:28       ` Nicolas Neuss
2003-04-29 14:23   ` Marco Antoniotti
2003-04-29 14:29     ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 19:06       ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-29 16:51 ` Kaz Kylheku
2003-04-29  8:57 Daniel R. Anderson

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