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Use lexical binding

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From: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
To: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30484: Use lexical binding
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:36:18 +0100

Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi David,
>
> 2018-02-16 10:39 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>:
>> Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org> 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

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