Re: gnu in summer-of-code: more projects needed

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

BT Templeton <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> BT Templeton <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>>>  * Implement Emacs-compatible lexical binding support
>>
>> In what way is the current elisp implementation in Guile not
>> Emacs-compatible?
>
> This is a trivial change; Emacs uses the `lexical-binding' variable to
> determine the default scope rules on a per-file basis, while Guile-Elisp
> provides a `lexical-let' special form.

OK.

BTW, it appears that the Emacs ‘lexbind’ branch has been merged:
<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/138010>.

> I think a logical next step would be to update Ken Raeburn's Guilemacs
> patches to work with Emacs 24 and Guile 2.0, perhaps in parallel with
> the above tasks. I'll include that in my proposal

Cool.  I guess you’d have to define priorities, because all this can be
a lot of work.

>> If the latter, would you be around after the summer to work on Emacs
>> integration?  :-)
>
> Yes.

Great.  :-)

Ĝis,
Ludo’.