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| From: | Tom Tromey |
| Subject: | Re: Static Scoping versus Dynamic Scoping |
| Date: | Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:44:22 -0600 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: >> I read somewhere that in the future dynamic scoping of variables in Emacs >> Lisp will be replaced with static scoping. Stefan> You're confused. There is some work going on which attempts Stefan> to *add* static scoping (more seriously than provided by CL's Stefan> lexical-let macro). But there's no intention to drop dynamic Stefan> scoping: it would break about 99% of existing Lisp code. I'm curious about this. I know about the branch for this but I haven't seen any discussion about merging it to the main line... Tom
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