Re: Default lexical-binding to t

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Lexical binding makes debugging more difficult.  For example, the
  > compilation process discards the names of parameters to functions.

C uses lexical binding, and yet GCC manages to say where to find the
function's local variables.  Even in an optimized compilation,
it does that pretty well.

If the byte compiler doesn't do such a good job, how about fixing that?

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