From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: tomo@cx4a.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should lexical-let use let in the situation lexical-binding is t ?
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:42:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1TE6V5-0007zD-0M@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv392f5x9e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:44:39 -0400)
As mentioned in my reply there, the two aren't quite compatible (because
(lexical-let ((tab-width 4)) foo) will be a lexical binding, whereas
(let ((tab-width 4)) foo) will be a dynamic binding)
Is it really a sensible thing to make a lexical binding for a variable
that is normally dynamic?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-18 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-18 10:28 Should lexical-let use let in the situation lexical-binding is t ? Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-18 12:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-18 22:42 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2012-09-19 0:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-19 14:12 ` Richard Stallman
2012-09-19 19:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-19 22:06 ` Sam Steingold
2012-09-20 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-20 15:06 ` Sam Steingold
2012-09-19 1:20 ` Sam Steingold
2012-09-19 7:43 ` Nix
2012-09-21 18:18 ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-21 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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