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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hack-one-local-variable use lexical-binding
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:21:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1rggb3ow.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8E2B73D4-1269-4D0A-B572-7B6B47C46924@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:16:45 +0200")

> 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.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-26 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-26  2:55 [PATCH] hack-one-local-variable use lexical-binding Tom Gillespie
2020-11-26  3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-26  4:47   ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-26  7:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-26 14:21       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-11-26 14:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-29  4:12           ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-29  9:43           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-29 15:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-29 19:50               ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-29 20:38                 ` Stefan Monnier

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