Re: [Pre-PATCH v2] Add the capability to specify lexical scope in tangled files (was: Add new :lexical header argument)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Timothy <orgmode@tec.tecosaur.net> writes:

> It occurs to me that this use case could also perhaps be satisfied by 
> file-local
> variables? If we presume that mixing tangling to lexically-bound and
> non-lexically bound elisp files is a corner case we don’t care that much 
> about,
> a `org-babel-elisp-lexical' variable could be used to set the behaviour, and
> modified using file-local variable forms as usual.

I do not think that setting `lexical-binding' file-local variable in an
Org file makes much sense. I am sure that we can do better.

I can see that there are people in favour of :lexical feature.
So, we can probably add it, but it should not be in ob-core.
Instead, we should provide an infrastructure allowing ob-* backends to
modify tangling. Maybe some kind of special function that will override
default `org-babel-spec-to-string' per backend?

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