Re: Real-life examples of lexical binding in Emacs Lisp

[Joost Kremers]

Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> (Examples of general-purpose programming problems
> made easier with l.b. are more or less obvious/easy to find, but Emacs
> is a text editor, after all, and this is its primary area.)

Yes, Emacs is a text editor, but I'd say the primary purpose of Elisp is
to *implement* that editor. The fact that Elisp has more facilities for
editing text than most other programming languages is just a consequence
of that.

So presumably lexical binding was added to Elisp not so much because it
makes text editing easier, but because it makes implementing the text
editor easier.



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