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Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it? |
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Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:43:56 -0700 (MST) |
I think we do. For one thing, it will helpful if elisp authors start
thinking about (and optionally using) lexical binding, for surely when
we replace the elisp interpreter entirely, the new language will use
lexical scope by default.
I should clear up a possible misunderstanding. We will never
eliminate Emacs Lisp support from Emacs. We will never tell all the
users to convert all their Emacs Lisp code to another language.
That would hardly be treating them right.
We want to support Scheme, and we may implement Emacs Lisp by
conversion to Scheme some day. What makes this goal thinkable is the
possibility of maintaining compatibility for Emacs Lisp.
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, (continued)
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Miles Bader, 2001/12/07
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/07
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Stefan Monnier, 2001/12/07
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Miles Bader, 2001/12/07
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Stefan Monnier, 2001/12/07
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Miles Bader, 2001/12/07
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Miles Bader, 2001/12/07
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Kai Großjohann, 2001/12/08
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/08
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Colin Walters, 2001/12/09
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Sam Steingold, 2001/12/09
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/09
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/10
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Sam Steingold, 2001/12/10
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Per Abrahamsen, 2001/12/11
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Sam Steingold, 2001/12/11
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/12
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Per Abrahamsen, 2001/12/11
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Sam Steingold, 2001/12/11
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/12