Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code

[Göktuğ Kayaalp]

On 2020-09-13 20:29 +03, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> We're definitely going in the opposite direction, though -- with the
> introduction of lexical binding, the popular style is to create a bunch
> of closures that refer to the surrounding environment, and that leads to
> more nesting.

Tangentially, is passing around environments something any programming
languages do? E.g.

(defun x (env)
  (using-environment env
    (message "I am %s" name surname)))

(defun y (name)
  (let ((surname "McCarthy"))
    (x (capture-environment-as-closure))))

(y "John")

That would be one cool feature to have in Elisp.

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