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Re: lexical mumblings
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: lexical mumblings |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:49:17 -0400 |
> 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
- Re: lexical mumblings, (continued)
- Re: lexical mumblings, Sam Steingold, 2001/10/26
- Re: lexical mumblings, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/29
- Re: lexical mumblings, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/29
- Re: lexical mumblings, Miles Bader, 2001/10/29
- Re: lexical mumblings, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/30
- Re: lexical mumblings, Miles Bader, 2001/10/30
- Re: lexical mumblings, Miles Bader, 2001/10/29
Re: lexical mumblings,
Stefan Monnier <=
Re: lexical mumblings, Miles Bader, 2001/10/20