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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 18:57:51 +0000 |
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Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
>> As the reference in the previous phrase explains
>> this is just about what we control in Emacs with
>> the `lexical-binding' variable.
>
> Dunno what previous phrase you refer to. That
> variable isn't mentioned in the paper (other
> than appearing in a code example).
>
> A suggestion would be to be explicit about this
> in the future - or else explain the phrase.
I was referring to the phrase just before the one we are discussing:
"We point out that, since Emacs Lisp received in 2012 lexical scope
support, two different sub-languages are currently coexisting [15,
Sec. 8.1]."
> I personally think the phrase used is confusing,
> and perhaps misleading. Yes, one could argue
> that variable `lexical-binding' kind of splits
> Elisp currently into two languages. But that's
> not a usual way of looking at it, and it's not
> the way that Emacs talks about itself.
I agree with you that could have been stated more clearly without
assuming the user had visited the reference (this is not a correct
assumption).
>
>> Apologies if you think this could have been
>> phrased better, I hope the misunderstanding
>> is clarified.
>
> No need to apologize, at all. It's clear to me
> now; thank you for clarifying.
>
> And thanks for the great work (!) and clear
> paper about it.
Thanks again.
Andrea
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Re: "Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code" at the European Lisp Symposium, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/29