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Re: Deprecating 'lexical-binding: nil'
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Deprecating 'lexical-binding: nil' |
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Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:03:12 -0400 |
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> I agree. For the record, it was never my intention to suggest that we
> should rush to delete 'lexical-binding:nil'. My expectation is that it
> will be phased out at some point in the future when it is no longer
> really relevant.
We should never remove nonlexical mode. To remove it would break old
Emacs Lisp programs in a way that is very hard to fix. With most of
our incompatible changes, it is easy to find the things that need to
be fixed. So it is not such a big obstacle to running old programs.
This would make old programs useless.
Mere simplification can't justify that.
This is not a mere "novelty".
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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- Re: Declaring 'lexical-binding: nil' obsolete, (continued)