From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: abq@bitrot.link
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is lexical-binding's global value ignored?
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:32:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r0vc5hj9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43216edcfeada34083e17a8230af2ee3@bitrot.link> (abq@bitrot.link)
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 20:53:30 -0700
> From: abq@bitrot.link
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 2023-01-28 23:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Wasn't that already explained? What happens if you say
> >
> > (setq-default lexical-binding t)
> >
> > and then load a Lisp file that expects dynamic-binding by default?
>
> Then it breaks!
We want to avoid such a breakage. It is year 2023 out there, but
there's still gobs of code that assumes dynamic binding.
> As I wrote in my response to tomas: “In order to break
> anything, you would have to do so explicitly, via (setq-default
> lexical-binding t).”
We decided that was not explicit enough, because many people will not
understand the disastrous consequences. E.g., even the user's init
file can fail to load.
> Of course, nobody actually does that. Therefore, it would be safe to
> honor the global value in Emacs 29.
Sorry, we won't, not in Emacs 29. And that's final. Please accept
that, even if you disagree.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-30 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-28 3:01 Why is lexical-binding's global value ignored? abq
2023-01-28 7:10 ` tomas
2023-01-29 9:36 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-31 4:19 ` Richard Stallman
2023-01-31 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-28 16:11 ` abq
2023-01-28 18:44 ` tomas
2023-01-28 22:34 ` abq
2023-01-29 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-30 3:53 ` abq
2023-01-30 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-01-30 12:59 ` tomas
2023-01-30 13:45 ` Po Lu
2023-02-01 2:04 ` abq
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