bug#66706: [PATCH] Automatic elisp dialect insertion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   mattias.engdegard@gmail.com,  66706@debbugs.gnu.org,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 02:31:57 +0200
> 
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
> 
> > There will be such users, but their number will likely be lower than
> > some might expect, simply because the lexical dialect very much
> > resembles how programs are written in other languages these days.
> 
> Short version of my reply: Emacs users are a different group than Elisp
> package developers.  Let's help them by forcing a lexical binding cookie
> in the config file instead of simply making their Emacs potentially not
> starting up.

If this is about init files, we could instead make processing init
files assume lexical-binding by default.