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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus compatibility with the lexical binding branch
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:53:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqp9ejip.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr59p65xd.fsf-monnier+INBOX@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:16:29 -0400")

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:16:29 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote: 

>> I'm not familiar with the lexical binding branch.  Is there a developer
>> guide for ensuring compatibility with that branch?  And are you (and
>> Stefan) asking the Gnus developers to invest time in that compatibility?

SM> It's the other way: the branch has to ensure compatibility.  So there's
SM> nothing to worry about for you.  But if you intend to use the
SM> lexical-binding mode for some of Gnus's code, you'll have to adjust
SM> a few things (mostly make sure all uses of dynamic scoping are duly
SM> declared via defvar before the first use).

Is there an example of how to do this properly, how to test that it's
correct, and is there any way to catch it at the byte-compile stage?

Ted



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-14 10:11 Gnus bugfixing is broken David Kastrup
2011-03-14 14:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-14 15:17   ` David Kastrup
2011-03-14 16:12     ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-03-14 17:47       ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2011-03-14 16:22     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-14 19:13 ` message-yank-original issue (was: Gnus bugfixing is broken.) Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-14 19:38   ` message-yank-original issue Antoine Levitt
2011-03-14 19:47     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-14 21:02       ` Antoine Levitt
2011-03-14 22:04         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15  0:36         ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-03-15 15:30         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-15 15:29       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-15 15:49         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15 15:56           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-15  9:34   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15  9:48     ` David Kastrup
2011-03-15 10:01       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-26 19:34     ` Sven Joachim
2011-03-28 19:05       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-28 19:57         ` Sven Joachim
2011-03-28 20:06           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-28 20:35         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-29  5:37           ` Antoine Levitt
2011-03-28 20:41         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-29 14:55           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 15:08             ` David Kastrup
2011-03-29 15:20               ` Gnus compatibility with the lexical binding branch (was: message-yank-original issue) Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 20:16                 ` Gnus compatibility with the lexical binding branch Stefan Monnier
2011-03-29 20:53                   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-03-30  0:42                     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-08  5:51                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15 10:06 ` Gnus bugfixing is broken Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15 13:31   ` Didier Verna
2011-03-15 13:52     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15 15:23       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-15 15:56         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15 16:09           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-15 17:01             ` Didier Verna
2011-03-15 13:58     ` Michael Albinus
2011-03-15 14:46       ` Didier Verna
2011-03-15 14:57         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15 15:08         ` Michael Albinus

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