Re: Default for lexical-binding

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > The first step, I maintain, should be to warn on loading a file that
  > > does not explicitly specifu the value of lexical-binding.  This will
  > > not break anything, but it will remind people to add the variable
  > > setting to their old Elisp files.  The warning message should
  > > explicitly suggest that the user do this.

  > Will this also warn when loading the user init file??

If we implement the feature, what it does in that case is up to us.
We could treat .emacs specially, or not.  I don't think that question
is very importan, though.  It won't take long for people to add
-*-lexical-binding: nil-*- to that one file.



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