Re: lexical mumblings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: 07 Nov 2001 00:02:59 +0900
> 
> (2) I implemented the file-variable to turn on lexical binding, but I'm
>     not entirely sure what the exact variable name should be.
> 
>     Should it be `descriptive':
>   
>         ;; -*- lexically-bound: t -*-
> 
>     or `prescriptive':
> 
>         ;; -*- use-lexical-binding: t -*-
> 
>     or something in between, e.g.:
> 
>         ;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
> 
>     or something a bit more general sounding (though falsely so, I guess):
> 
>         ;; -*- binding: lexical -*-
> 
>     [The last seems the most similar to existing file-variables,
>      e.g. `mode: foo', or `coding: bar', but those can genuinely have more
>      than two values!]
> 
>     Anyone have opinions on this one?

For whatever irrational reasons, I prefer "lexical-binding: t".

If you need a precedent, we have "unibyte: t".