Subject: Re: bug#20640: 24.5; lexical-binding should work like a normal file-local variable

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 21:59:45 -0400

> I think the only reason for this is an implementation detail
> (lexical-binding is parsed by other code than the other file-local
> variables).  It would be great to make it consistent with other
> variables so that the user doesn't need to care about the difference.

Allowing it at the end of the file, would require jumping to the end of
the file first, and then starting over from the beginning.
That'd be a very bad requirement.

        Stefan