Re: [PATCH] hack-one-local-variable use lexical-binding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:21:22 -0500
> 
> > This would be a backward-incompatible change, wouldn't it?
> 
> I've made exactly this kind of incompatible change many times over
> between Emacs-24 and now.  I don't think we should worry about it.
> 
> > I'd prefer a backward compatible solution.  For example, how about
> > a separate lexical-eval clause, which will do this leaving eval to
> > work as it did before?
> 
> As I said, that's over-engineering.

We disagree.