Re: lexical mumblings

[Stefan Monnier]

> I am not interested in changing Emacs Lisp to be lexically scoped.  It
> would be a major incompatible change.  We want to make Emacs support
> Scheme, and one byproduct of that will be the availability of lexical
> scoping.  But the Emacs Lisp language will always use dynamic scope.

I agree that there's a large risk of incompatibility, but I don't think
anybody here is interested in lexical-elisp unless it is sufficiently
backward compatible to make the compatibility issue negligible.
I strongly believe that we can get very close to 100% compatibility.


        Stefan