From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sending function arguments to recursive function calls Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 08:21:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0F54256BD7B94384AC4DDA919D502C20@us.oracle.com> <4D1DF48A7223443FA454C07B20B80E21@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368015729 7073 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2013 12:22:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 12:22:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 08 14:22:08 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua3Nn-00072z-PY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 14:22:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua3Nn-0006Un-8M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 08:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37805) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua3Nb-0006Ui-Kd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 08:21:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua3Na-0000YZ-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 08:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45899) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua3Na-0000YM-CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 08:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua3NU-0006ko-1d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 14:21:48 +0200 Original-Received: from 184.175.6.252 ([184.175.6.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2013 14:21:48 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 184.175.6.252 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2013 14:21:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.175.6.252 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xobGGaSkD8aDuVZ3GG3GwkpkAE4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90546 Archived-At: > Emacs Lisp does not particularly make things clear, IMO. Common Lisp > does a pretty good job of helping lexical and dynamic binding cohabit. Actually, Emacs's lexical-binding variant of Elisp is pretty close to Common Lisp: the default binding is lexical but you can use dynamic binding for specific cases. The difference is that Emacs has to keep the old compatibility mode where lexical-binding is nil, whereas Common-Lisp never had such a thing. > Lexical binding was added to Emacs relatively recently. With time, > perhaps it and dynamic binding will become better roommates. When lexical-binding is t, they're very good roomates already. Hopefully with time, the "lexical-binding = nil" case can be dropped. Stefan