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26.3; update-directory-autoloads regression from Emacs 26 to Emacs 27

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 39823 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#39823: 26.3;
 update-directory-autoloads regression from Emacs 26 to Emacs 27
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 22:16:04 -0400

Hello,

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

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> Is there any real use for lexical scoping in --eval?
> I suggest reverting the default for --eval to dynamic.
> We could introduce --evallex to specify lexical scoping
> and ask people to tell us if they find it useful.

Not a bad suggestion, but I actually embrace the change to lexical mode
everywhere (I find it more forward looking, and like that it is
consistently the default everywhere).  I believe the reason for this bug
report is two-fold:

1) I wasn't aware of the change to --eval (my bad -- I don't follow
Emacs development very closely).
2) The API of some older code (such as the `update-directory-autoloads'
procedure from the autoload library, as I found out) requires the use of
dynamic evaluation for its API to function.

Now that I know about 1), it's rather easy to work around 2).  And I'd
guess that with Elisp finally preferring lexical scope by default, 2)
will tend to disappear over time.

Maxim

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