GNU bug report logs - #66706
[PATCH] Automatic elisp dialect insertion

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Message #118 received at 66706 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 66706 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#66706: [PATCH] Automatic elisp dialect insertion
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:43:01 +0800

Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com> writes:

> In other words just like now (but better, since hardly any new code
> will use dynamic binding).

That's a theory, one inconsistent with the results of all other measures
to promote lexical binding that we have taken so far.

> It depends on how much sympathy you have with people having existing
> code written in the old dialect. It could be argued that they should
> have converted their code long ago, but that assumes that they know
> that they actually have that problem.

The mere existence of dynamically bound code is not a problem, and
nothing enjoins users to convert their code.  This is the sort of
fallacious thinking that leads people to propose draconian measures such
as the subject of this bug report.

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