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[PATCH] Automatic elisp dialect insertion

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Message #103 received at 66706 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com, 66706 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#66706: [PATCH] Automatic elisp dialect insertion
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:10:55 +0300

On 25/10/2023 19:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Of course, maybe I'm not being bold enough and we shouldn't wait: let's
>> change the default `lexical-binding` to t right away and just tell
>> people to add a `lexical-binding:nil` cookie if they don't know how (or
>> don't want to) adjust their code to the new dialect.
> If this is what you were arguing for, I could at least understand it.
> The measure proposed here I don't even understand.

FWIW, if we flipped lexical-binding to t in the next release, that 
should also solve all user scenarios that were presented in this discussion.

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