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Re: "Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code" at the European Lisp Symposium
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Andrea Corallo |
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Re: "Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code" at the European Lisp Symposium |
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Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:55:34 +0000 |
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Hi Drew,
Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
> 1. It's a good paper, and the work sounds great.
Thanks that's appreciated
> 2. FWIW, I don't agree with this prognostication
> or point of view, from the paper, starting after
> "since":
>
> "The proposed compiler focuses on generating
> code for the new lexically scoped dialect only,
> since the dynamic one is considered obsolete
> and close to deprecation."
>
> Dunno who, besides perhaps Stefan, considers
> dynamic binding in Elisp to be "obsolete and
> close to deprecation". That would be a mistake.
>
> IMO, Emacs Lisp should, like Common Lisp and for
> even stronger reasons, continue to make use of
> both dynamic and lexical binding. Each has its
> uses in Elisp.
>
As the reference in the previous phrase explains this is just about what
we control in Emacs with the `lexical-binding' variable.
Apologies if you think this could have been phrased better, I hope the
misunderstanding is clarified.
Regards
Andrea
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Re: "Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code" at the European Lisp Symposium, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/29