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Re: Default lexical-binding to t


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Default lexical-binding to t
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:20:45 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:32:10 -0500
> 
> > Can you tell what are the benefits of turning on lexical-binding by
> > default, relative to what we have now?
> 
> IME, nowadays lexbind is the "de facto" default used for all
> new ELisp code, including code snippets posted around the web.
> So using dynbind when there's no cookie is often a source of errors
> and confusion.

Thanks, but I asked about specifics, not in general.  And this was the
less important part of my question; you elided the more important
parts.

I'm trying to find a way of moving forward with this while minimizing
objections and complaints, so please help me finding the auxiliary
measures which will make this possible and hopefully less painful.



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