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28.0.60; Confusing presentation of lambda

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From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 52063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52063: 28.0.60; Confusing presentation of lambda
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 03:13:35 +0300

On 24/11/2021 21:16 +0100, Philipp Stephani wrote:

> Am Mi., 24. Nov. 2021 um 20:17 Uhr schrieb Stefan Monnier via Bug
> reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
> <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>:
>>
>> Filipp Gunbin [2021-11-24 21:18:43] wrote:
>> > On 24/11/2021 11:54 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> >>> what is the recommended binding mode for .emacs?  Dynamic or lexical?
>> >> `lexical-binding` should be enabled everywhere.
>> >> The non-lexical-binding dialect will be phased out.
>> > Yes, I know that eventually it'll be phased out, but then perhaps issues
>> > such as this need special attention..
>>
>> Indeed, but I'm not sure what we can do about it.
>
> Maybe, once the non-lexical dialect is gone, we can make (closure (t)
> (lambda ...)) identical to (lambda ...) and then prefer the latter
> again.

Or maybe we could just _print_ the closure objects in such a special
way that it's more pleasant to read, especially when there's actually
empty lexical environment.

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