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Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?
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Colin Walters |
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Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it? |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Dec 2001 01:50:30 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (powerpc-debian-linux-gnu) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I've looked over the code Miles wrote, and I see it is simple and
> clean enough, as an implementation of lexical binding in Emacs.
>
> Whether we really want the feature of lexical binding in Emacs is
> another, deeper question.
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. So this is a good first step in the right
direction.
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, (continued)
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/07
- 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 <=
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/10
- Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?, Sam Steingold, 2001/12/09
- 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