From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code" at the European Lisp Symposium Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:27:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <69d8b48d-bd09-41c1-a89d-ed76fe0284a4@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="4125"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: akrl@sdf.org, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 30 04:29:29 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 1jTyx7-0000yY-GE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:29:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56630 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyx6-0003Ln-44 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyum-0008RC-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyul-00014k-Mt; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyuj-000621-Sw; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:27:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <69d8b48d-bd09-41c1-a89d-ed76fe0284a4@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:00:37 -0700 (PDT)) 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:248201 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > "The proposed compiler focuses on generating > code for the new lexically scoped dialect only, > since the dynamic one is considered obsolete > and close to deprecation." We might someday decide to deprecate dynamic binding mode, but that would be years away. Unless/until we do so, new features in Emacs should support both. It won't be difficult to support both. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)