Re: Default lexical-binding to t

[Stefan Monnier]

> Apologies in advance if this has been suggested and discarded before, or
> if I am missing something obvious, but wouldn't it be possible to have
> an additional level of indirection with a new variable,
> default-lexical-binding, settable in, say, early-init.el?  It's not a
> real solution, but at least people with lots of trouble with the new
> default could just set it off in one place.

The patch I submitted in the relevant bugreport allows that.
I'm not sure how much we want to advertise it, tho.  I was thinking of
keeping it only as a kind of testing/debugging tool, a bit like
`bidi-display-reordering`.


        Stefan