Re: Default lexical-binding to t

[Stefan Kangas]

Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>>    • We recommend enabling ‘lexical-binding’ in new code, and converting
>>>>      existing Emacs Lisp code to enable ‘lexical-binding’ if it doesn't
>>>>      already.  *Note Selecting Lisp Dialect::.
>>>
>>> I don't think this justifies nagging a user who explicitly wants some
>>> file(s) to be treated as using dynamic binding.  The above is just a
>>> recommendation, not a hard requirement.
>>
>> I don't consider this as much more than a gentle nudge and reminder.
>> The mode line indicator has been with us for a few releases already, and
>> I personally don't see compelling reasons to change that decision now.
>
> If the goal, eventually, is to have lexical binding as the default, then
> it would help to have all code that uses dynamic binding to (eventually)
> use an explicitly set the lexical-binding buffer-local variable.  To
> that end, while it makes sense to issue a warning for implicit uses of
> dynamic binding currently, it is unclear why explicit uses should also
> warrant a warning.

Sorry, I misunderstood.

I'm fine with removing the warning for _explicit_ uses of dynbind.