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Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases
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Andrea Corallo |
Subject: |
Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:54:29 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello, Andrea.
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 19:49:55 +0000, Andrea Corallo wrote:
>> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > What specific real problem does forcing M-: to use lexical binding
>> > solve?
>
>> My 2 cents are that it solves the problem of consistency if we assume
>> lexical binding is going to be the default for the future.
>
> What problem of consistency?
>
>> Indeed to become default it has to start somewhere.
>
> So, you would presumably agree with me, you know of no specific problem
> that lexical binding in M-: will solve. It causes breakage. But you
> think it's a good idea, anyway?
>
> I believe people who say lexical binding is a good idea, even though I
> can't see any benefit myself. But there are places where lexical
> binding is not a good thing, and M-: is one of these, in my view.
Hi Alan,
Is just that I like the idea of having *scratch* buffer and M-: behaving
as the code I (and most of us) write (lexical). I understand that,
being dynamic a super set of lexical, someone very much experienced can
still prefer the first, but is not my case at least :)
Regards
Andrea
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- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, (continued)
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- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, John Wiegley, 2020/03/09
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Stefan Monnier, 2020/03/09
- RE: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Drew Adams, 2020/03/09
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Stefan Monnier, 2020/03/09
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, John Wiegley, 2020/03/09
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Alan Mackenzie, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Andrea Corallo, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Alan Mackenzie, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases,
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- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Alan Mackenzie, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Stefan Monnier, 2020/03/10
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- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Michael Heerdegen, 2020/03/10
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