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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hack-one-local-variable use lexical-binding
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 15:38:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpn3vyk67.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+G3_POJQ-wTduQihhLCXV_rXdWgHeOOp+h4OBPUh2qgdVA2Pg@mail.gmail.com> (Tom Gillespie's message of "Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:50:35 -0500")

> The only outstanding question to me is whether users would be able to
> control whether the eval local variable uses lexical binding at all
> even in the future. I can imagine that when the switch to
> lexical-binding being t by default happens there will be a need for an
> escape hatch

The lexical-binding dialect of ELisp already offers both dynamically
scoped bindings and statically scoped bindings (controlled by the use
of things like `defvar` and `dlet` to declare that a var should use dynamic
scoping).


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2020-11-29 20:38 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
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 [this message]

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