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From: "Kai Großjohann" <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:43:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525DA8E6.8070607@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppr6oju7.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk>

Phillip Lord wrote:
> 
> None the less, I think you are hitting a strawman here; if Emacs went
> entirely lexically bound, I don't think that it necessarily follows that
> elisp will turn into Java.

Sorry, Phil, that's not what I meant.  I think I got carried away a
little there.  Even if Emacs were to move to Guile: Scheme has fluid-let.

All I wanted to point out is that this idea of dynamic binding is more
powerful than one might think at first.

Kai




  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-15 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-12 17:56 DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Andreas Röhler
2013-10-12 18:35 ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Dmitry Gutov
2013-10-12 20:53   ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Drew Adams
2013-10-13  5:09     ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-10-13  7:54   ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Andreas Röhler
2013-10-13 13:46     ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Kai Großjohann
2013-10-13 16:21       ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Drew Adams
2013-10-14 11:21         ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Phillip Lord
2013-10-14 13:45           ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Drew Adams
2013-10-14 16:05             ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Phillip Lord
2013-10-14 21:32           ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Kai Großjohann
2013-10-15 11:27             ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Phillip Lord
2013-10-15 20:43               ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2013-10-16 12:57                 ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Phillip Lord
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.4127.1381928277.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-16 14:26                   ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Barry Margolin
     [not found]       ` <mailman.3929.1381681317.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-14 11:27         ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Rustom Mody
2013-10-14 11:15 ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Phillip Lord
     [not found] <mailman.3891.1381600459.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-13  3:34 ` DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Barry Margolin

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