Subject: Re: bug#30484: Use lexical binding

From: David Kastrup <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:36:18 +0100

Mosè Giordano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi David,
>
> 2018-02-16 10:39 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <[email-masked]>:
>> Mosè Giordano <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> We should make sure AUCTeX doesn't fundamentally use dynamic binding,
>>> in order to later switch to lexical binding.
>>
>> You have to pick one or the other for the equivalent of closures.
>>
>> I do think we have a few cases of those that would benefit from lexical
>> binding.  Should I go over them?
>
> Are you volunteering to fix this issue?  If so, please go ahead :-)

Uh, _fix_ this "issue"?  This is going to throw a real spanner into the
works of whoever plans keeping AUCTeX working on XEmacs.  Or it may
incentivize someone to implement lexical binding on it.

One of those.

-- 
David Kastrup