Re: Declaring 'lexical-binding: nil' obsolete

[Po Lu]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> I disagree; the warning is clear.

The problem is not something that a byte compiler warning will solve.
Updating the documentation will do much more to solve that, than a
byte-compiler warning.

> Where the documentation is not yet updated to recommend lexical binding,
> it should be fixed.

Yes, agreed.

>> But why does the NEWS entry you have proposed include:
>>
>>     Third-party code will need to be changed to support
>>     'lexical-binding:t' to run properly on Emacs in the future.
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Because this is true if the plan is to change the default.

So in the future, dynamically bound code (lexical-binding: nil) must
also work with lexical binding (lexical-binding: t)?

That amounts to a removal of the dynamically bound variant of Emacs
Lisp.