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24.5; lexical-binding should work like a normal file-local variable

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Message #13 received at 20640 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 
 Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20640 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20640: 24.5;
 lexical-binding should work like a normal file-local variable
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 13:33:05 -0700

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On 05/24/2015 06:59 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> 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.

Why? We're going to have to read that page eventually anyway.

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