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

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>, 20640 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20640: 24.5; lexical-binding should work like a normal file-local variable
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:04:13 +0000

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Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> schrieb am Mo., 22. Juni 2015 um
17:57 Uhr:

> > I don't think this is a misdesign. In most cases files are either
> seekable
> > or small enough so that reading the variables from the end is tolerable.
> I
> > prefer the end of files for local variables because they tend to be less
> > important than the actual content.
>
> I'm not talking about file-local variables in general.  I'm talking
> about the "coding:" pseudo-variable.
>
>
>
No matter how we choose to call it: My argument stands, reading such
pseudo-variables from the end of the file is desirable, useful, and has
negligible disadvantages. Or do we have evidence that users routinely read
very large (gigabyte-sized) Elisp files from non-seekable sources?

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