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Re: Declaring 'lexical-binding: nil' obsolete


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: Declaring 'lexical-binding: nil' obsolete
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 07:17:22 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Lexical binding has been with us since Emacs 24.1, released on
> 2012-06-10, almost ten years ago.  In Emacs 28.1, we will have no files
> that do not use lexical-binding.[1]
>
> I think it is time to formally declare the "lexical-binding:nil" dialect
> of Emacs Lisp obsolete.

But countless amounts of user code might be made obsolete by this
change, including a great deal of my own.  And I (and presumably other
people) will have no time to adjust to this change.

Even if it is obsoleted at some point, it is IMO very premature to do
right now.

Thanks.


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