Re: Deprecating 'lexical-binding: nil'

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I agree.  For the record, it was never my intention to suggest that we
  > should rush to delete 'lexical-binding:nil'.  My expectation is that it
  > will be phased out at some point in the future when it is no longer
  > really relevant.

We should never remove nonlexical mode.  To remove it would break old
Emacs Lisp programs in a way that is very hard to fix.  With most of
our incompatible changes, it is easy to find the things that need to
be fixed.  So it is not such a big obstacle to running old programs.
This would make old programs useless.

Mere simplification can't justify that.

This is not a mere "novelty".

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