From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] hack-one-local-variable use lexical-binding Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:44:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83blfkqisb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8E2B73D4-1269-4D0A-B572-7B6B47C46924@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25784"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tgbugs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 15:47:02 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kiIY2-0006bm-3s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:47:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34292 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiIY1-0001Cu-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:47:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiIWJ-0000Wt-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiIWI-0005C3-Kk; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:45:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1098 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kiIWF-0004uH-2w; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:45:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:21:22 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259837 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Tom Gillespie > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:21:22 -0500 > > > This would be a backward-incompatible change, wouldn't it? > > I've made exactly this kind of incompatible change many times over > between Emacs-24 and now. I don't think we should worry about it. > > > I'd prefer a backward compatible solution. For example, how about > > a separate lexical-eval clause, which will do this leaving eval to > > work as it did before? > > As I said, that's over-engineering. We disagree.