From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lexical-binding rationale? Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:17:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326431883 14873 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2012 05:18:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 13 06:17:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RlZWY-0006kC-Eh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:17:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42073 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlZWX-0004fU-6g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:17:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlZWQ-0004e2-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:17:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlZWN-0005RM-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36121) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlZWN-0005R8-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlZWM-0002tn-Iw; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:17:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Dave Abrahams on Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:47:35 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147636 Archived-At: I'm sure this has been discussed to death, so please feel free to respond with a link, but... can anyone point me to a rationale for dynamically altering such a fundamental language behavior on the basis of a variable's value? It has to be specified somehow, so how would you suggest? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/