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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>, Bastien Guerry <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add ob-sclang.el for sclang Org-mode babel support in contrib/
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:14:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY1wVDCfzjy3Gp+M25=xfEGxjTF4bH5_G-d+8Az451WKhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3sobagb.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 5:21 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

>   There is absolutely no drawback in using lexical binding. Since Org
>   9.0, it _is_ the default for Org core: almost every Org library
>   activates it nowadays.
>
> Again, lexical binding has _no_ drawback and makes life of developers
> easier (e.g., code is more readable, compiler reports more errors).
> I moved almost every library in Org to lexical binding, some changes
> being trivial, some painful, for a reason. I don't want to do a step
> backward in that area without a very strong reason–to tell the truth,
> even a strong reason wouldn't convince me.
>

Here are some of my observations on the topic of lexical-binding by
following emacs-devel closely for the past few years.

It has become a norm to write new elisp code that is lexical-binding
friendly.

I have seen this movement started on emacs master for a long time now
(since 2011), and still there is a continuous effort to enable
lexical-binding on more and more emacs core files:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?qt=grep&q=lexical-binding

The same applies to Magit and many other external emacs packages (
https://github.com/search?q=lexical-binding+language%3A"Emacs+Lisp"&type=commits
).

The idea is that once almost all the elisp code out there is
lexical-binding compatible, the default of emacs can be changed to that and
dynamic binding can be obsoleted.

I have also seen how a lexically bound package is more portable as there is
no implicit reliance on global variables from multiple other packages.

> --

Kaushal Modi

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-19 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-09  0:43 Add ob-sclang.el for sclang Org-mode babel support in contrib/ numbchild
2017-06-10  8:17 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-11  2:02   ` numbchild
2017-06-14 14:02     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-15  6:21       ` Bastien Guerry
2017-06-15  7:53         ` numbchild
2017-06-15  7:56           ` numbchild
2017-06-15  8:26             ` Bastien Guerry
2017-06-15 11:19               ` numbchild
2017-06-15 11:14       ` numbchild
2017-06-15 12:38         ` Bastien Guerry
2017-06-16 23:25           ` numbchild
2017-06-17 10:53             ` Bastien Guerry
2017-06-17 12:23               ` numbchild
2017-06-17 12:46                 ` Bastien Guerry
2017-06-17 13:14                   ` numbchild
2017-06-17 14:27               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-18  8:34                 ` Bastien Guerry
2017-06-18  9:31                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-18 19:45                     ` Bastien Guerry
2017-06-18 20:37                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-18 21:32                         ` Bastien Guerry
2017-06-19  9:20                           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-19 10:14                             ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2017-06-19 10:37                             ` Bastien Guerry
2017-06-19 14:44                               ` numbchild

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