GNU bug report logs - #30078
27.0.50; Use lexical-binding for M-:

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>

Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:38:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 30078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30078: 27.0.50; Use lexical-binding for M-:
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 20:55:41 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 30078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:49:00 -0500
> 
> > Please, not in *scratch*.  Setting variables and then evaluating forms
> > that use them is very useful there.
> 
> I'm not sure how the two sentences are connected:
> Setting lexical-binding to t in *scratch* won't prevent setting
> variables and evaluating forms that use them.

For some value of "prevent", surely?  Dynamically-bound variables will
no longer work as they did before, right?
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