From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?S2FpIEdyb8Ofam9oYW5u?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: DynamicBindingVsLexicalBinding Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:43:18 +0200 Message-ID: <525DA8E6.8070607@gmx.net> References: <52598D4A.2010901@easy-emacs.de> <871u3qjq0j.fsf@yandex.ru> <525A51BD.5040903@easy-emacs.de> <525AA42B.6030006@gmx.net> <6d5df021-be1e-40a2-966a-548a7ee9deb3@default> <87txgk85em.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> <525C62D9.8070702@gmx.net> <87ppr6oju7.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381869780 17425 80.91.229.3 (15 Oct 2013 20:43:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 15 22:43:03 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 1VWBSC-0005Er-QA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VWBSC-0004yr-E1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:42:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VWBRw-0004ym-FL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VWBRp-00017j-56 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:42:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:61747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VWBRo-00017d-SW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from marcie.lan ([188.100.165.77]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MDhba-1VXoWv2ygo-00HAhC for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:42:31 +0200 User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.8 (Macintosh/20130427) Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87ppr6oju7.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:35Pb/x5LXYvujY2RXQ7l5xehnLCyLVQqCEkBtcJ9kf3p3QL0PA3 k/A3R906/Ti6G47EqyF4a3RF/XCTpJGD3Jj8Az0fi67t80AsGg55o4CqCpuSi3SpQpxBxFO cHk/u7atoKzrUJHeae7AV0rvqifxhNkVtmkjXPUb3b8RMTkPFXhcnYJ/ekGACamWUH5bxKb cVMt8NnotzlpznPP9ZlpA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.18 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:94029 Archived-At: 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