GNU bug report logs - #44854
[PATCH] Add lexical-binding cookie to autoload files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:35:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: bug#44854: [PATCH] Add lexical-binding cookie to autoload files
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:06:40 -0500

>> > What's the rationale?  Why not leave it without the cookie, right
>> > until the time we turn lexical-binding on by default?
>> Because when we change the default (not sure what that could be, 2030
>> maybe?), it will change the way existing files are treated except those
>> that have a `lexical-binding:` cookie.  Clearly, this is dangerous
> Dangerous for loaddefs.el? why?

I was not discussing specifically `loaddefs.el`.
The reason to change it in `loaddefs.el` now rather than later is
because I can't see any benefit to doing it later.


        Stefan
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