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bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:40:31 -0700 |
Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:
> The warning about a missing lexical-binding cookie rather belongs in
> the compiler than checkdoc, because it's not about documentation or
> style but code generation and ability to detect errors, both which are
> hindered by a missing cookie.
>
> Moving the warning to the compiler also makes it more widely seen.
Yes, that makes much more sense. Thanks for doing that.
The patch looks good too.
> + ;;; My little pony mode -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
If we want this to conform with the format required by package.el, this
should be:
;;; pony.el --- My little pony mode -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
Or would that distract from the main point?
> +Lexical binding avoids some name conflicts and allows the compiler
> +to detect more mistakes and generate more efficient code.
On a side note, it would be good to also highlight this in the relevant
sections of the manual.