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Re: [External] : Re: Closures in Emacs and their usage scenarios.


From: Hongyi Zhao
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Closures in Emacs and their usage scenarios.
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 12:35:34 +0800

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:55 PM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Tomas Hlavaty wrote:
>
> > The point I was trying to make, that closures might not be
> > used much in Emacs Lisp so far, because lexical binding is
> > rather new there, not because there are a few use-cases.
>
> Elisp is from 1985, lexical binding was introduced in 2012,
> now it is 2021.
>
> (/ (- 2021 2012) (- 2021 1985) 1.0) ; 0.25
>
> So, has it been there 25% of the time?
>
> But that doesn't give an accurate picture even, because there
> are many more Elisp hackers in 2021 than in 2012 and there
> were more in 2012 than in 1985.
>
> I'm too tired to put that into the calculation, Mr. t of the
> official tuxteam of the Federal Republic of Germany maybe can
> help me out?

What do you mean by saying "the official tuxteam of the Federal
Republic of Germany"?

HZ



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