Re: Static Scoping versus Dynamic Scoping

[David Kastrup]

Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:

> I read somewhere that in the future dynamic scoping of variables in
> Emacs Lisp will be replaced with static scoping.
>
> I don't want this to happen because I often need to make use of the
> following idiom:
>
> (let ((case-fold-search
> t))
>  
> (foo))
>
> Inside the foo function case-fold-search's value is set to t,
> whatever the global value for case-fold- search.
>
> Could someone please reassure me that this precious feature will not
> be removed?

Variables defined with defvar will not be affected by the change.
There is no work in progress that would make this change likely in the
next 7 years, anyway.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum