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Re: Real-life examples of lexical binding in Emacs Lisp
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: Real-life examples of lexical binding in Emacs Lisp |
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29 May 2015 09:30:33 GMT |
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Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> (Examples of general-purpose programming problems
> made easier with l.b. are more or less obvious/easy to find, but Emacs
> is a text editor, after all, and this is its primary area.)
Yes, Emacs is a text editor, but I'd say the primary purpose of Elisp is
to *implement* that editor. The fact that Elisp has more facilities for
editing text than most other programming languages is just a consequence
of that.
So presumably lexical binding was added to Elisp not so much because it
makes text editing easier, but because it makes implementing the text
editor easier.
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Re: Real-life examples of lexical binding in Emacs Lisp, Emanuel Berg, 2015/05/29
Re: Real-life examples of lexical binding in Emacs Lisp, Rusi, 2015/05/30