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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Evince
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:29:30PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@???> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > Emacs is a somewhat old-fashioned/ traditional[*] Lisp implemenation
>
> [*] It doesn't support lexical scoping.


That's what's old-fashioned about it. And there's some work on
changing this, but given the sheer amount of existig elisp code that
relies on no lexical scoping, even if only by accident, it'll probably
take decades to get there.

-- hendrik