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bug#47843: 28.0.50; Setting enable-local-variables to nil *appears* to i
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#47843: 28.0.50; Setting enable-local-variables to nil *appears* to inhibit lexical-binding (but doesn't) |
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Wed, 05 May 2021 10:56:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
> I see the same thing. I also note that `eval-region' produces the
> same result as `eval-defun'. (I'd only tested `eval-buffer' initially,
> and that respects the `lexical-binding' setting.)
Ah, right. Hm... well, I guess that's kinda logical? But it's a bit
confusing; yes...
> My main point was that I'm dubious that enable-local-variables should
> be allowed to affect lexical-binding in any situation.
>
> While it's strictly true that the lexical-binding implementation
> utilises a file-local variable, I feel like this particular variable
> should be guaranteed to be respected when set, because it fundamentally
> changes how the code will be interpreted.
>
> Are there are any other file-local variables in that same category?
> I couldn't think of any offhand, and so this seemed worthy of having
> an exception made.
Hm... can't think of any other variables like this, either.
I don't really have an opinion here -- I can see arguments for both
sides. Perhaps Stefan has an opinion here (added to the CCs).
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