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[PATCH] Adding diary-offset, a diary-sexp offsetting another diary-sexp.

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Message #20 received at 50195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: hi <at> ypei.me, 50195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50195: [PATCH] Adding diary-offset, a diary-sexp offsetting
 another diary-sexp.
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 14:38:51 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> It's how all these functions in diary-lib are defined after the lexical
>> rewrite -- the `eval' depends on those dynamic variables.
>
> Ugh!  Is it worth it?  If we cannot convert these functions to use
> lexical-binding, maybe we should say lexical-binding: nil in the first
> line of the file, and remove all those gross kludges?

I think having all files lexically bound is a win in itself -- it means
that you know the Lisp dialect without looking at the mode line (and can
write code that depends on closures etc freely).

It does lead to these hacks here, yes, but it's already done, so...

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