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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Message #35 received at 30078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 30078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30078: 27.0.50; Use lexical-binding for M-:
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:06:41 -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?

No, they'll work pretty much as before.


        Stefan
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