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bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:38:33 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
>> 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.
>
> So long as this warning is only displayed within code part of Emacs
> itself, there are no valid objections to such a change.
>
> But you have instead elected to generate warnings whenever such files
> are byte-compiled. There exist many packages which do not enable
> lexical binding, whose authors have studiously elected not to: most of
> Drew Adams' for example. So this is tantamount to punitive action
> against their users, in the form of an unsightly warning each time such
> packages are installed.
No, it's just asking those authors to make the result of their studious
work explicit with
-*- lexical-binding: nil -*-
-- Stefan
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, (continued)
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler,
Stefan Monnier <=
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Mattias Engdegård, 2023/10/20
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/20
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Mattias Engdegård, 2023/10/21
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/21
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Mattias Engdegård, 2023/10/21
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Drew Adams, 2023/10/21
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Stefan Monnier, 2023/10/21
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/21
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Po Lu, 2023/10/21
- bug#66636: Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler, Stefan Monnier, 2023/10/22