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28.0.60; Confusing presentation of lambda

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 52063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52063: 28.0.60; Confusing presentation of lambda
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:07:30 +0100

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

> But, yes, it would mean that people might be tempted to write actual
> code like
>
> (lambda ()
>   (declare (lexical-binding (foo . 1)))
>   ...)
>
> but people might be tempted to do the same with `closure' forms, and
> that doesn't seem to be happening.

But the above idea is a step in the direction to make closures look even
more like code.  Declarations are a coding thing.  I think we would
regret that very soon.  Kind of "what happened to my lambda, who added
these declarations?" (if that sounded ironically: this is not intended).

Michael.

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