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Re: lexbind

From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: lexbind
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:27:50 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) 
> The recent bytecomp bug, fixed (mostly) by renaming some local
> variables, gives an argument for installing the lexbind branch.
> The main issues about it are

> (1) What are good ways to declare certain variables dynamic?

`defvar' is the standard way to do that.  CL offers ways to do it inside
`declare' macro calls, but I don't think it's an important refinement.

> (2) What packages will break?

Hopefully none since the lexbind branch only uses lexical-binding when
the code asks for it.


        Stefan
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