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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Luis Gerhorst <privat <at> luisgerhorst.de>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA, 30078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30078: 27.0.50; Use lexical-binding for M-:
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:48:38 +0200

> From: Luis Gerhorst <privat <at> luisgerhorst.de>
> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:50:36 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA,
>  30078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 1) Make Elisp more approachable to newcomers. Lexical binding is the default in most programming languages and thus more people are familiar with it. This makes it easier for people to understand existing code since they don‘t have to get used to implicit dynamic binding first, which the code may take advantage of.

Do we know for a fact that most users who extend Emacs by writing
their own Lisp have background in Lisps and other similar languages
where lexical binding is the default?  If not, dynamic binding might
be easier to grasp for the newcomers.
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